Good Morning All,
So how do you respond when you hear good news? Most of us get very 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. My wife and I 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 wouldn’t be on the call list and then we
told them. We had good news to share and
couldn’t 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 isn’t 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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