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God is Love vs. God is Just

John 3:16  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  

One of the most well-known verses in all the Bible, isn't it?  Yes, God loved us so much that He was willing to sacrifice His only Son, that we might have a way to Heaven.  How incredible!  Course, His wondrous grace and mercy enter into it as well.  But what about God being just?  That's also true!  God is just and holy!  God is all those things, and all at the same time.  You might say (or have heard it said) that God couldn't send me to hell…God is love!  It's true, God is love;  but at the same time (and perhaps even more so) is the realization that God is a just God.  He cannot allow sin into His Heaven.  You must trust Christ as your personal Savior.

  • John 14:6 says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."            Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven!   
  • Peter 3:9 "The Lord…is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."   
  • John 3:17-18  "For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.       He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

I know I've written about salvation before.  It is a very important subject!  I had heard this subject--not once, but actually twice--recently, and thought it was good to repeat it.  If you haven't trusted Christ as your personal Savior, please reread these verses, and then even read my post about salvation, if you haven't.  This is the most important decision you could ever make.  Please don't turn the Savior away.

That you might know Him
    Merle
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