JOHN iii.1-21.
The springs of our redemption are found in infinite love. |God is love!| Redemption was not inspired by anger, but by grace. We do not contemplate an angry God, demanding a victim, but a compassionate Father making a sacrifice. At one extreme of our golden text is eternal |love,| and at the other extreme is |eternal life.| What if the two are one? Etymologically, |love| and |life| are akin. What if they are only two names for the same thing?
To |believe| in the love is to receive the life. For when I believe in a person's love I open my doors to the lover. And to believe in the love of God is to let the heavenly Lover in. And with love comes a wonderful tropical air -- light, and warmth, and air; and |all things become new!| It is the letting in of the spring, and things which have been in wintry bondage awake, and arise from their graves.
And so I |enter into the kingdom of God.| I become a native of a new and marvellous country. I begin to be acclimatized in the realm of the blest. And I |see the kingdom of God.| Spiritual perceptions become mine, and I gaze upon the mystic glories of the home of God.