God is love

A few days ago I was prompted to explain the Gospel.

Man, it’s still such a loaded question to me.

I definitely did not answer adequately, nor gracefully, in the 60 second time allotment.  I thank God for the simple Gospel, but without faith, it is too simple.  

At least, that is, if you’re an over-complicator and over-thinker like I am.

Being of such a mind led me to renounce my faith in the Gospel of Jesus back in 2020.  I knew the simple Gospel, yet when expected to share this story with other people, I realized how faulty my belief actually was.  In hindsight I realize I didn’t have true faith in Jesus.  I didn’t actually know the Gospel of Christ to be 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦.  I had never met Jesus.

Then in 2023, I met Jesus.

And the seed of salvation was not a Bible tract emphasizing scriptures of condemnation and repentance, it was in the truth that God is love.

And He made himself so vulnerably known to us through Jesus Christ.

And the GOOD NEWS?  He is still with us today! by His Spirit, until the day of our heavenly homecoming, because #thisworldisnotourhome

This is my faith.

It’s intangible,

and it’s awesome,

because it’s mine, at the deepest core of who I am, and I don’t have to prove or persuade evidence of Christ, nor defend the transformation that follows from meeting such Love.  

I can trust the reality that Christ alone does the revealing of Himself to those who seek, and His heart of restoration for people is so much purer and stronger than anything I could muster or try to impart in eloquent speech or religious vigor.

So what is the Gospel?

The Gospel, plainly, is 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦.  

God (𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥) is love, and he made Himself physically known to us through the person of Jesus Christ.  

This must be the basis.  

This must be where we start.  It must not be a bullet point list checking off plot points of what to say.  

No, God is love, and He doesn’t need us to save people.  

But He does use us to plant seeds His Spirit waters, so my question to those who read this is:  𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮?  𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠?