Second Sunday After Christmas
I was recently prompted to think on what the gospel is and my immediate response was: People sinned, Jesus died for our sins, and we have salvation through him. But I realized these words sparked nothing in me. Growing up in the church, they have became dull to me with repetition so I tried to really understand what they actually meant. My reflections are as follows:
The Gospel is that God saw messy, gross us, and thought we were worth saving. So he sent his pure, perfect Son among us as a human to love us and to die for us. That even those that put nails through his hand and spat upon his face, he loved. But that he rose from the dead, conquering death for us. That if we repent and believe, we are saved. It is that God sees you, in your messy grossness - the you that falls into your bad habits again, that was cruel to someone who needed your help, the you that thinks awful things. That he sees that you, says that is not right, that is not what I have designed you for but I love you and you are worth saving.
The Gospel is not pristine words in a pristine book alone, it is a perfect God loving an imperfect people. Christianity, I think, is an imperfect people trying to love like their perfect God.
Charis Legg
Grace Alone Kings Kaleidoscope
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