John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son.

This might be the most often quoted and memorized verse in all of scripture. God loves us, he loves the whole world. He loves us enough to send us his son, so that all who believe in him can live—really live. God longs for our return to him, and his son is the way back home, the way we take for the return journey. Thanks be to God.