The Gospel is Everything.

We just got back from an incredible cruise with my entire family and it couldn't have been any more fun.  I want to write a whole post about it and share pictures soon. I loved getting to spend that much time with my wonderful family.  I am so thankful to the Lord.  He has richly blessed me.  Christmas is only days away and all I can think about is the Gospel.  The reality of the Gospel has sunken into my heart so heavily just within the last 48 hours.  The reality that God became flesh and came to this wicked world and died to save rebellious sinners like myself just makes me cry.  God you are so unfathomable and your love is so deep that we can't even comprehend it.  I think about who I used to be.  I was so lost, so blind, so captive and He intervened with His great power and marvelous grace to save me.  Everything truly is about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Christmas is about the Gospel.  The Holy Bible is all about the Gospel.  Our short lives are to be about and consumed with the Gospel.  The Gospel needs to be proclaimed to every man, woman, and child of every nation.  The Gospel is glorious and the only thing that will bring you true and lasting joy!!!  The Gospel will give you joy that far surpasses any trinket or toy you could ever have in this world.  It will fulfill every longing in your heart and give you overwhelming peace. 

Beloved, let us run to the cross on this Christmas.  Look past the manger and to the babe that would become a man that would hang on a cross for you and me.  A man that would utter the most glorious words in His last few breaths, "It is finished."  He said those words and He meant them.  He swallowed and bore all the wrath of God in our place.  He calmed the raging seas of God's wrath towards our sin.  He brought peace between us and God the Father.  He reconciled man to God.  He did it.  We can only boast in Jesus Christ and Him alone.  What a glorious feeling that is!  There is nothing else I need for Christmas.  I have already been given the greatest gift known to man, the gift of the Gospel.  It truly is everything Beloved and will always be everything for all eternity.