Wonder

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

Tell me what it means to perish, and enable me to
grasp the thought of a life that is eternal. Measure
for me the abyss of man's wickedness and guilt dur-
ing all the ages of his black and hateful history, that
I may realize in some degree what that world is
which God loved. Then, pausing for a moment in
wonder at the thought that such a world could be
loved at all, hasten on to speak of love that gave the
Son. And when you have enabled me to know this
love which cannot be known, for it passes knowledge,
press on still and tell me of the sacrifice by which it
has measured and proved itself--His Son, His Only-
begotten Son.

And when you have achieved this, I turn again to the
words of Christ, and I read that it was GOD who so
loved the world, and I crave to know Who and What
God is. When I come to know that it was GOD who
loved, that GOD was the giver, and GOD's Son the
gift, I stand as a wondering worshipper in the pre-
sence of the Infinite, and confess that such knowledge
is too high for me.   

- Sir Robert Anderson