Good Morning All,
Acts 8:35; “Then Philip
opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news
about Jesus.”
So how do
you respond when you hear good news?
Most of us get extremely excited.
We can hardly contain our excitement.
Think of a time when you got good news.
When our son and his wife were expecting their first child, we could
hardly wait to tell everyone. We were
sitting together at the table and we agreed that this good news belonged to our
son and to our daughter-in-law, so we were going to let them tell
everyone. So, we sat but then my wife
said, “I have to tell someone!” So, we
thought of someone who probably would not be on the call list and then we told
them. We had good news to share and could
not wait to do so.
Maybe you have had a similar
situation. When you have good news, who
do you tell first? Do you tell your
family or your co-workers? Do you do the
Facebook thing, or do you call them on the telephone the old-fashioned
way? When you have good news, you share
it. When we have good news, we tell the
people around us. We might start with
our family, then our close friends and then our acquaintances and then anyone
who we have contact with. It might be the
waitress at the diner we eat at, it might be the mail man or the guy we see
every day at the mall. When we have good
news, we share it or do we?
The best news we have is the
news about Jesus. The best news we have
is that we have Jesus as our savior. The
best news we have is that we will have eternal life with Jesus in
paradise. We have God’s promise of
salvation, of comfort, of being sustained by his grace, of being free from the
guilt of sin. It is placed in our hearts
and given to us to hold onto whenever things look bad or we feel sad. We are the redeemed children of God, held
safely in his loving arms protected from all that the devil throws at us. We literally have everything that we could
ever need; so why are we quiet?
We should be telling
everyone our good news! We should be
telling our family and closest friends about the wonder of what we have. We should be telling everyone but why don’t
we? It may be because we have had the
news so long that it is not exciting anymore and that is too bad. Our salvation and God’s grace is a breath of
incredible life-giving newness every day.
Every day we are brought back into God’s family. Every day we receive the forgiveness of sins
and the life affirming words of salvation.
We are renewed and redeemed every moment of every day; we receive this
wondrous mercy every day. This is good
news for us, and it is good news for us to share!
Gracious Father, we give you
thanks for the good news which you give us.
We give you thanks for the gift of salvation that you give us. Lead us to be voices heard that proclaim your
praise. Be with those who do not know
the peace that this wonderful news gives us.
In the precious name of Jesus, we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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