Some More Bad News

And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. Exodus 33:4

Another sexual harassment allegation? Where does the bad news end? I can tell you today that if we are going all the way back to the beginning of my life, we will find plenty of sin for me to feel guilty about. This political tool may fulfill the devil's purpose for today, but any of us are likely targets. Take me back to the days of my youth and you may well hear the exhortations of Paul to avoid sexual immorality ringing from the rafters of the little church I grew up in. And yet, you would also find ample evidence that I did not listen very well. All of that is simply some more bad news, and that is not what I am called to share in this world of today.

Long ago God established that we are sinful and stubborn people. His chosen nation of Israel in Exodus 33 received a tongue lashing from the Lord and they mourned. I fear that in this age that same message would bounce off of many and that mourning would be only among a few. As sinful as we are in person or as a nation, the good news of Jesus Christ remains the same. God provided in His Son a solution to this problem of sin, and that solution is wholly of Him and not of us.

The good news of Jesus Christ begins in forgiveness and it continues through grace and onto eternal life in Christ Jesus. All of this was paid for by our Lord long ago and He makes it available to us freely for the asking. Ask, seek, and knock on the door, our Lord tells us and we will find the good news we need in the midst of this present darkness. Repentance brings mercy and forgiveness of sin, and then the Lord will never bring that old sin up ever again. As far as the east is from the west our Lord puts away those dreadful deeds and thoughts of sin in which we have wallowed. In Him - we live!

There is too much bad news in the media today; put away the news and read God's good news instead.

Bucky