A small boy filled with all kinds of playful ideas anxiously awaited his father's return from work. An extra long day at the office, however, had taken its toll, and his father longed desperately for just a few minutes of relaxation. Over and over again the boy tugged at his Dad's legs with yet another suggestion of something they might do together. Finally, in total frustration, the father ripped from a magazine a picture of the world and tore it into a hundred pieces! "Here!" he said, handing the child a roll of scotch tape. "Go put the world back together" ~ "Ah, at last peace"...(or so he thought). In just a few minutes he was interrupted again. There before him stood his son, and in his hands was a crudely fashioned picture of the world. "Son, that's incredible. However did you do it?" "It was very easy" said the boy. "You see, on the other side of the picture of the world was a picture of a man, and as soon as I got the man straightened out, the world was okay too!"
One day our Heavenly Father looked down from Heaven and saw a broken world ~ a world that had been shattered into a million pieces by the deadly hammer of sin. But God loved the world ` loved it enough ~ to send His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, so that all could be made new again.
John 3:16 (MSG) ~ "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life."
