When God sent his Son to earth to reconcile us to himself, he called it Good News--and it is. It’s the best news ever for a world with too much sin and pain, injustice and need, violence and cruelty. We could be better, we could be stronger, we could be more loving, we could be filled with something of God himself--all because of Jesus.
Jesus is the Word--God’s Word to each of us, the Word God spoke when he created the world, the Word that gives light and life to a world in darkness.
As John puts it, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. . . . The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-2, 14).
God is not some cosmic power who delights in obfuscation. He wants each of us to know him and have a relationship with him. That’s why he’s revealed himself to us in various ways--through the patriarchs and prophets of the past, and today through his Son, “the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” (Hebrews 1:1-3).
Read the Word about Jesus. His story is told in the first four books of the New Testament--Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They are called the Gospels, which means good news.
See what he’s like, and you’ll know what God is like. “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father,” Jesus said (John 14:9). See what he’s like, and you’ll have a great example of how we should be. Not that we can do it on our own, but that God has done it for us through his Son, the Word.
That’s the really Good News! |
