The Good News will wreck your world. It will mess with your life, your sin, your plans, your theology, your thinking, your family, your relationships, your work, your possessions, your school, your friends, your leisure, your entertainment, your everything.
The Good News is at once More Grace and More Righteousness. It will shock the righteous with an unpalatable amount of transforming grace to the repentant sinner, and it will anger the sinner with an inhuman level of holiness.
The Good News will cause great upheaval. It will create sleepless nights and restful days. It will create peace in the midst of storms and cause division in a society and among a people who have not before tasted heaven and experienced the gift of divine forgiveness, love, righteousness, peace and grace.
The Good News is hidden in plain sight. It is in your mouth and in your heart, yet it is not often recognized, rarely lived to the full. It is the pearl of great price, the gem of God offered for all yet despised by most. It is the simple life. It is grace and peace. It is love and joy. It is kindness, forgiveness, abundant life.
The Good News is the greatest miracle of Life. It calls to the simple to find wisdom, to the wise to find humility. It cries out to the generations hustling about to listen to the ever present voice of the Shepherd, to find the ancient paths, to seek out the High Way, to return to the hidden place, the Shelter of Shaddai, the Shadow of Elyon.
The Good News calls for the children of Abba, Yahweh Sabaoth to walk as brothers and sisters with Elder and firstborn brother Yeshua and to seek after Him, to follow hard after Him, to love Him with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. It is at once the narrow path and the way of the light burden. It is the path which is hard to find, yet easy to walk.
The Good News is painful to the flesh yet sweet to the spirit. It cost everything yet the price has been paid and costs no more for those who give up everything. It requires nothing but giving up everything. It is the deal of the ages, the offer we cannot, yay must not refuse. It is life to those who find it, health to those who seek it, love to those who are found in it.
The Good News is the meaning of life and the reason for living. The Good News is Jesus Christ, the Chosen Savior. He is our Jubilee, our Sabbath, our מְנוּחָה menucha, our eternal rest. He is our joy, our freedom, our Agape, our חַיִּים chayyim. He is our Good News, our everything.
RG 8/19/2019
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