Good News

Proverbs 25:25, “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.”
There is a country song that was popular several years ago that asked for “a Little good News Today”. If you were to ask someone, “What’s the good news today?” how many answers would you get? If you were to ask a saved child of God you would likely hear, “The same as yesterday. God loves us.” both you and then would have good reason to praise the Lord.
But what if the one you posed the question does not know Christ as savior they would have no good news to share. For to them God is not real and this world is a mean place in which to live.
Despite what you see on the evening news life is not a series of accidents and misfortune. Our god is still in control. He still can make the worst disaster fulfill His wise and loving plan.
Faith in Jesus, the One who gave himself on Calvary’s cross and rose again is our light in a dark and dreary world. In Matthew 28 we see where the women who came to the tomb were told to go and spread the good news that Christ was not dead but was alive. This was good news that causes these women to rush back and tell all the disciples. So could these women have been the first witnesses who were called to share the good news?
Later in Mathew 28:19-20 we see where Jesus is giving His followers instructions what they were to do. “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” These were then to take the same good news that Jesus was alive to the entire world. That same instruction is given to the saved and baptized children of God today.
Yes Jesus is alive and well and that is great news to a dying and lost world. It is the good news we are to proclaim to the dark streets and byways and to compel all to come to Jesus. The good news is not that Jesus lived and died but that He died and lives. That He paid our sin debt and cleansed us from all unrighteousness and now sets as our advocate with the Father. How much better can the news get?