For God So Loved the Whole World…
“For God so loved the world…”
We’ll hear this familiar and beloved verse again this Sunday. But do we stop to consider what it means? For God so loved the world, the whole world, and everyone in it. This picture of residential buildings in a district of the Chinese city of Qingdao reminded me of an experience I’d often have as a kid while driving down the interstate at night in my parents’ car. I’d watch all the headlights whizzing by and wonder how on earth God could know all these people, listen to all their prayers, and love them all. It was mind boggling.
And it still is.
Yet that’s the promise: “For God so loved the world” – the whole world! – “that he gave his only Son….”
This picture by Wu Hong (EPA) and featured in Time Magazine’s Lightbox site. You can see more of this week’s “strange landscapes” there.
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