God’s Love For You
Good News –January 2019 – Grace & Truth Magazine
God’s Love For You
God speaks to you right out of His Book – the Bible. He says that He loves you. God knows your name, your family and where you live. In fact, God knows all about you. He made you and everything else in the world too.
“God so loved the world.” This means He loves every boy and girl in the whole world. He wants you to become His child. God loved you so much He gave His greatest gift so you can become His child.
“... That He gave His only begotten Son.” God’s Son is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is God’s gift to us. God sent Jesus down from heaven to earth where we live. Jesus was born as a Baby; He grew and played like other boys and girls; but when Jesus was grown up, He died on a cross for our sins. The Bible tells us, “Christ died for our sins” (1 Cor. 15:3 NKJV).
God calls the bad things we do sin. He said, “All have sinned and ... the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 3:23, 6:23). Nobody can forgive your sins but God, and that is because Jesus took the punishment for your sins by suffering and dying.
Then on the third day God raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus is alive now in heaven with God. Yet He can hear you when you pray to Him!
God also said, “... That whoever believes in Him” – Jesus Christ – can have forgiveness of sins and a home in heaven. Here is what you must do:
- Confess to God that you are a sinner and are sorry for your sins. “I will be in anguish [very sorry] for my sins” (Ps. 38:18).
- Believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31).
- Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (Jn. 1:12).
“... Should [will] not perish but have everlasting life.” Thank God for forgiving your sins and making you His child. You are now on your way to heaven!
You can tell other boys and girls, and grown-ups, that Jesus loves them, too. Tell them to ask God to forgive their sins.
Jesus wants everyone to go to heaven. Since you are God’s child, some day the Lord Jesus Christ will come and take you to His home there, where you will live with Him and God forever.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (Jn. 3:16). We can tell you more.
This article is available from Grace & Truth as a gospel tract for children.