GOOD NEWS!

In our house we must watch the news on TV at least 3 times per day, and sometimes more. On top of that we usually go and get a daily newspaper, and we often get further information from the internet. I don’t think we are much different than lots of folk. If we didn’t get the paper, would we miss it and feel unsettled?  I think the honest answer is “yes”, because we like the crossword. So we have all this “news” coming to us from different sources

But if you were to ask me can I tell you any news from a week last Tuesday, I would probably be struggling. There could well have been (in early January 2017) a lot of news about the fighting in Syria and Iraq, the terrible weather in much of Europe, scandal with regards to the USA President Elect Donald Trump, and of course preparations for the UK to leave Europe 2015. There would be some comment on the economy, the control of immigration, etc.,  but I wouldn't remember the detail. But suppose the same question was asked for me to recollect some news from a month ago, how would I get on then? – Probably not very well, and most of my answers would be a big guess. If the news is so important to us, why is it we forget it so soon?

The answer is that it is replaced by other news, and that probably we are only interested in what has happened that could directly affect us.  Many items fail to command our attention as they simply “leave us cold”. No matter how hard those employed try to get the news across, we don’t take much notice if we are not interested.

There is some news, however, that hasn’t changed down the centuries. It is contained in just one news story and it affects everybody alive on this planet. It is “GOD’S STORY” or gospel and it is definitely good news. This news is so important that it is being broadcast in various way by many different people yet the message is always the same – God sent His one and only Son down into our world to die for us so that we can be saved from an eternal hell and come into everlasting life. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

For the good news to take effect, we must believe that the Lord Jesus died on a cross for you and me. He sacrificed His life so that we can come into eternal life. When Jesus died, His Father, God, raised Him from the dead. He is now in heaven and it is His desire we believe in Him and His sacrifice on the cross for our sins, that we may be with Him for ever. His love for us knows no limit.

We pray that this news will not “leave you cold” or that you will forget it. On the contrary, we ask you to respond to this news with all your heart and come into a living relationship with the Saviour, who loved you so much that He died for you. We can do that if we truly come to Him and say, “Lord Jesus I believe You died for me on the cross, and that on the third day You rose from the dead. Please forgive all my sins. I choose now to turn away from them and I ask you to come into my heart and life as my Lord and Saviour”. May the Lord bless you in your response to this "Good News".