The Gospel

It is always my favorite to wake up early and take a healthy breakfast every day. However, it is really bad that I didn't manage to wake up early every day. It seems like the flesh doesn’t really cooperate with my will. It always lets me down when I find this conflict haunts me every day.

This morning, I had a breakfast with my friend at Subway. It was a great morning actually with a seemingly ordinary breakfast which is in fact a special thing to me. Another special thing was that he was curious about the gospel of the bible that the Christians often mention about, and asked me what is that all about. His curiosity has been roused due to the message of a drama series that he watched long ago. He didn’t manage to understand the story because it is mainly about the message in the bible. It turned to be very interesting to him because the story is appealing.

There have been tons of movies created that are attached with the good message in the bible. Those were made to express the same message with various ways and styles. I believe that the intention was really appreciable that they wanted to bring the good message into public in order to make people to have an awareness of that. They were good movies that people were talking about for a period of time, but the real message behind the stories somehow was being neglected all the time. It is pleasure to know that the movies that were supposed to direct people to Christ are well-known among the people. But it is saddening that people treat them as a good story but not a real story related to them.

The good news of the bible isn't something fictional. It is definitely not a myth or fairy tale that merely tells the lessons about some moral values. It is a history that fulfilled two thousand years ago by Jesus Christ, was being prophesied by a number of prophets for about thousand years through Holy Spirit and planned by the almighty God in eternity. Now it is all written in the Bible that the son of God came down and turned into flesh, he did all sorts of miracles with the intention showing us that he is the redeemer that God planned to deliver to mankind. He died on the cross without committing any sins in his whole life on Earth. He is sinless and totally justified as righteous under the laws of the world. In order to save the world, he was sent to die on the cross and yet he rose from death the third days. He overcame the death with the power of Holy Spirit. He was lifted to the heaven and he did promise us that one day he will return for the ultimate glory of his kingdom.

Good message is that we have been given the salvation that enables us to put the sinful nature and the bondage of sins into death. It is the salvation that keeps us from walking in the darkness by giving us the true light of the world with the word of God. It is the salvation that strengthens us by giving us Holy Spirit in order fight against the lusts and evil desires. It is the salvation that no one else will be able to give you. What shall we do to gain the salvation? We shall confess for all of our sins and repent truly in Christ, believe devoutly in the power of his cleansing blood, and live as a follower of Christ in the rest of your life for the glory of our heavenly father.