It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News by Tullian Tchividjian & Nick Lannon

Author:Tullian Tchividjian & Nick Lannon [Tchividjian, Tullian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Glorious Ruin, One Way Love, Grace, Gospel, Jesus + Nothing = Everything, Law, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
Publisher: David C. Cook
Published: 2015-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

June 27 | 1 Peter 1:12

When God’s good news met me in a very dark place during the summer of 2009, I started to see the many-faceted dimensions of the gospel in a more dazzling way. It’s almost as if, for me, the gospel changed from something hazy and monochromatic to something richly multicolored, vivid, and vibrant. I was realizing in a fresh way the now-power of the gospel—that the gospel doesn’t simply rescue us from the past and rescue us for the future; it also rescues us in the present from being enslaved to things like fear, insecurity, anger, self-reliance, bitterness, entitlement, and insignificance. Through my pain, I was being convinced all over again that the power of the gospel is just as necessary and relevant after you become a Christian as it is before.

And because the gospel is essentially the presence of Jesus Christ Himself and our being united to Him by God’s grace through faith, we can expect that the gospel will be amazingly versatile, that it will be enough—more than enough!—for whatever situation we’re in.

Maybe you’d like to think of the gospel as a diamond. It is one brilliant treasure—there is not more than one gospel—but it contains many different facets, each gleaming in distinct ways, providing new angles and levels of brilliance, all glorifying the same Savior.

Or maybe you like C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia and remember how inside the wardrobe was an entire universe of lands to explore. The gospel is like that.

In 1 Peter 1:12, Peter tells us that angels long to look into the gospel. What might attract their gaze? Why would these supernatural creatures want to stare into the good news of Jesus Christ? Maybe, on one level, because it is not for them but for sinful man, and this fascinates them. But perhaps on another level, they find the good news eternally fascinating because it brings to bear the manifest glory of the Alpha and the Omega. The gospel is eternally fascinating because Jesus is eternally glorious.

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