Gospel = Good News

I know this isn’t about Christmas but I had a thought. I was thinking about sin, face it we all sin there is no man who hasn’t. The only one free from sin is God, which leaves us out. We all sin, we all mess up, I’ve sinned today, yesterday, last week, last month, last year… and I’ll probably sin tomorrow. We’ve all sinned, and anyone denying it is lying. Good news is we’re all fallen so that means we’re all on the same boat. But the bad news is that separates us from God. Adam and Eve were cast out of God’s direct presence; they sinned and were sent away from the Garden of Eden, they were separated. The devil was an angel, in fact Satan and all the devils were angels (kind of ironic) but when Satan sinned he was sent to hell and was separated from God. When we sin we are separated, by sinning we build a wall between us and God. Sin is a slippery slope, imagine it this way, every time we sin we add a brick to the wall that separates us, as we go through our day sins pop up in our lives and each one adds a brick. No big deal after a day right? We can still see God can’t we? Well how about a week? A month, let’s say you’re 25 years old how does 25 years worth of bricks add up? Soon our view is like one of those bad views from a hotel all we see is a brick wall. But there’s more good news, imagine that brick wall again, and then KABOOM! A blast of dynamite blows it to bits and beyond that you get that great ocean view you saw on the web. That’s what Jesus does in our lives, He blows them up. He comes into our lives and shakes them so dramatically that the wall between us and God breaks down, we were separated by a gap and God gave us a bridge through the cross. Does that mean after we all become Christians we are sinless? No, we still sin, I became a Christian four years ago and I still sin, but we are forgiven, we are no longer separated from God. Does that mean it’s okay to sin? No, we can still add bricks to the wall and get lost again; God forgives us and want us to change our lives for Him. When I became a Christian my life was turned upside down, I was literally a new person, but I still have some big changes to make and the good news about that is that God helps us make these changes, He gives us the strength to live for Him, but we have to accept first. I guess that’s why they call the Gospel the Good News.