Dear Friends,
Are you having a difficult time? We all do every now and then. And when those times come, and are prolonged, we may be tempted to think God doesn’t love us. Where is the best place to look to get our thoughts straight again? Today’s devotional will show you. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• John 3:16 (ESV)

  16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

“This I know, my brethren, I may look back, I may look forward, but whether I look back to the decrees of eternity, or look forward to the pearl-gated city, and all the splendors that God has prepared’ for his own beloved children, I can never see my Father’s love so beaming forth, in all its effulgence, as when I look at the cross of Christ, and see him die thereon. I can read the love of God in the rocky letters of the eternal covenant, and in the blazing letters of heaven hereafter; but, my brethren, in those crimson lines, those lines written in blood, there is something more striking than there is anywhere else, for they say, ‘He laid down his life for us.’” [Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit XLVI, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1900), p. 5]