Unashamed

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes," Romans 1:16.

Who believes what? Believes that we'll have a good crop? That we'll find life on Mars? That we'll get the girl (or the boy)? Faith that we'll get through this? No. It's not faith that somehow things will work out the way we want them to work out. The power is not in us, in us who have faith in something, in anything. (Nor in a personified universe! Good grief, No! what do the stars care?) The power is in God himself, in his goodness: in the Good News that God's grace floods over us through Jesus' sacrifice. To us who believe. To anyone who believes that. Who believes the gospel. That's what. God's good news!

With a brother or sister today, we tell the good news of God's unimaginable generosity. Unashamed (ever always!), we believe in the power of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. And, together, our thanks overflows for God's salvation.