The Gospel

Have you thought about the Gospel lately? The gospel is the good news of salvation for hell-deserving sinners through the Person and work of Jesus Christ. It really should be something that we think about often as it relates to us. It is the one thing we are to be most passionate about. And not just passionate about sharing it with others, but also thinking and meditating on it ourselves. We need to rejoice in it, dwell on it and allow it to be the lens in which we look at our lives and the world around us.

I pray that we would learn that we need to be desperate for the gospel everyday. We need it to help us to keep from becoming a religion based people instead of a relationship based people. We need it to help keep us from becoming performance based Christian instead of grace based.

May we first preach the gospel to ourselves each day and in doing so we will realize with greater clarity the grace of God that was shed abroad in our hearts. We not only need to know the gospel, but also to love the God of the gospel and to see how it applies to every aspect and area of our lives.

"Moreover, bretheren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have reeived, and wherin ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. for I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; And that he was buried and he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:1-3).