Cover It With Love

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Read it again—and then read what the Disciple John tells us a few verses later: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” The Word is Jesus.

Jesus is God.

And because of His great love for us, He left the glory of heaven and entered His own creation—not as an earthly king surrounded by wealth and power, but as a baby laid in a manger.

He became flesh and walked among us. He knew hunger, weariness, temptation, rejection, grief and pain, yet He remained without sin.

Then, in the greatest act of love the world has ever known, Jesus willingly went to the cross.

Publicly mocked, beaten, humiliated and crucified, He bore our sins in His body and paid the debt we could never pay for ourselves. Even as He suffered, He extended mercy. To the repentant criminal dying beside Him, Jesus promised, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

Then Jesus declared, “It is finished.”

He gave up His spirit to the Father, and His body was placed in a tomb.

But the tomb was not the end.

On the third day, just as He had foretold, Jesus rose from the dead.

Death was defeated. Sin had been paid for. The grave could not hold Him.

And because of the finished work of Jesus Christ, a way has been made for sinful humanity to be reconciled to a holy God. Not because we can earn it. Not because we can become good enough. Not because we deserve it.

Because of grace.

God offers salvation as a gift, received through faith in Jesus Christ—trusting in who He is and what He has done, turning to Him, confessing Him as Lord and believing that God raised Him from the dead.

Through Christ, we are forgiven and reconciled to the Father. Through the Holy Spirit, we are made new and given new life. And we are given the sure hope of resurrection and eternity with God.

This is the Gospel.

The word gospel means good news—and this is very good news indeed:

God loved.
Jesus came.
Jesus died.
Jesus rose.
Grace was offered.
The way home was opened.

And this gift is offered to you.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” — John 3:16

The Gospel is not the story of humanity finding its way to God.

It is the story of God coming to us and making the way back to Himself through Jesus.

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” — John 14:6

Thank you Jesus.