The Glorious Gospel of Jesus - Part 623

The good news is that we can trust Jesus with all our hearts, with all our souls and with all our minds because it was He -- God in the flesh -- that made a way of salvation when there was no way. Indeed, Jesus made His light to shine in our hearts so that He could  share with us the knowledge of the glory of God that is evident in the face of Jesus the Christ. (II Corinthians 4:6) 

But unfortunately, the gods of this age have blinded the minds of many. To the point whereby unbelievers are unable to comprehend "the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." (II Corinthians 4:4) Rather, these same people fail to understand that our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah, and as such, we can rest in His blessed assurance. That you and I can be wholly satisfied in the knowledge that His light -- the gospel of Jesus that came about as a consequence of the cross -- can shine brightly within our hearts. 

Still, the gospel encourages believers in Jesus to "arise and shine and let our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ give them light." (Isaiah 60:1) The light that breaks forth like the dawn so that thy healing -- whatever healing that is needed -- quickly appears. Then, as the scriptures state, "will your righteousness go before you. The glory of the Lord will be your rereward. Then shall thou call and the Lord shall answer. Thou shalt cry and he shall say, Here I am." (Isaiah 58:8-11)

Jesus' invitation is for all of us who are weary and heavy laden, Jesus invites each and every one of us to come to Him. Come to Jesus -- your Lord God and Saviour. The Almighty God who is the first and the last. The beginning and the end. The Alpha and the Omega. The only mediator between God and man whereby we can be saved.

This is the light of the glorious gospel. The light that when "we all, with open face behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (II Corinthians 3:18)

It is this salvation that we yearn. John writes in I John 3:2 that "now we are the children of God and what we will be has not yet been made known." But what we do know is that "when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."

This is why those who sleep need to awaken from their slumber. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves but to fully recognize that our sufficiency is in God our Saviour. Remembering the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead. [He] who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver -- in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us." (II Corinthians 1:9-10) For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus our Lord. (II Corinthians 4:5) 

"Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away and behold all things are become new. And all things are of God who hath reconciled the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." (II Corinthians 5:17) 

"For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (II Corinthians 5:18-21) Therefore, let the light that is inherent in the gospel of Jesus rise in the darkness, so that our night can become like the noonday sun. (Isaiah 58:8-10)  Stand in the offering plate.