Don't Despair, It's There!

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you. 1 Thessalonians 3:6

For all of the good news of Jesus that is in the New Testament, it is interesting that only one verse in all of that good news says 'good news' as I search in the New King James version of the Word. Don't despair though, the word 'gospel' means good news and that occurs many times. The days come to us when we need some good news from the Word of God. A look in the spiritual mirror does not bring to us a vision of the self arrayed as a knight in the bright shining full armor of God that we would like to see. Often that vision looks more like the black dragon of sin blocking the way to the bridge across the great divide. But as Paul told his readers, we see quite poorly from this side of things. This is when we need the Good News of our Lord Jesus, and the reminder to not despair in what we think we see in that poor looking glass.

No worries, the Lord looking down sees that knight in full armor.

Bucky