REMEMBER...the Glorious Gospel

I have been thinking lately a lot the precious gift of salvation I have been given. I think a recent quote, “If the Gospel is old news to you, then it is will become dull to everyone else”, I read by Kevin DeYoung spurred this thinking. I so often forget to REMEMBER the importance of REMINDING myself of the message of the cross, of the gift of salvation EVERY DAY. Because I fall prey to my own selfishness, my own self-sufficiency, and my own pride, I tend to “forget” the Gospel. Now, I don’t mean I literally forget it, but I forget the reality of what happened, the entirety of it, it becomes old or dull news instead of precious Truth I am alive because of.

In Ephesians 1:4-10 we read:

“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.”

These verses stick out to me as a beautiful illustration, expression, of the amazing act of the Gospel of Christ on the cross. The adoption that I, or you, if you are in Christ, have received as sons and daughters, should transform our DAILY lives. We should be continually grateful, continually humble, and steadfast in our adoration and praise of the Holy One. If our lives are not marked with a radical submission to the Gospel, to consistent living as worthy of that Gospel, we will fail to represent the Truth to those around us. If I, as a child of God, have “forgotten” the Gospel, how is someone who has never heard it, or someone who has never responded going to find it appealing, amazing, and life-changing? My attitude must change; my mind must be renewed each and every day.

If I remember the Gospel, like it should be remembered, each and every day, I will change, becoming more like Christ. The more that I find my hope and joy and sufficiency in Him, and in who He is and what He did, the more I will exude with Him; the more beautiful the Gospel will become. If the Gospel becomes increasingly fresh and new and powerful each and every day to me, it will become that to those around me.

May we as maturing believers lead by example, may we find the Gospel as precious as it truly is, every single day, and forever grow in our knowledge and gratitude of it. And through that remembrance and power may we be ever increasing lights in this dark world.