We live in a
broken world. Today, it’s a world of a
pandemic and polarized society, of illness and unemployment, of loneliness and
homelessness. The gospels never deny the
reality in which we live. But the gospels also tell us that the world is filled
with more, is charged with God’s grace and presence. Jesus reminds us of this truth with His good
news.
Jesus
invited His first disciples to follow Him in proclaiming that good news – a
time of peace and salvation in the midst of illness and darkness. Peter, Andrew, James, and John left
everything to follow Jesus. They left
behind emotional, social, and economic security. Jesus challenged them to let go of everything
they were familiar with in order to join Him in a journey of spiritual growth
and self-awareness (Mark 1:14-20).
Christ calls
us too; right now. This is our decisive
moment. This time divides our past from
our future. Christ invites us to new
life. It’s time to repent, time to leave
behind our old lives, time to drop those nets that tangle us in false security
and detachments. Only then can Jesus
transform us into fishers of people by proclaiming the good news.
The kingdom
is near, the kingdom is among us. In
Jesus Christ, the kingdom has entered our time and place and
circumstances. It’s time for us to
proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ – as the Apostle Paul tells us “in
season and out of season.” (2 Timothy 4:2). Today, we find ourselves in the “out of
season.” Nevertheless, this present
reality is the place where Christ meets us.
Here is where He beckons us: “follow me.”
God is very
much with us in these times. This is the
‘good news’ that are the Gospels. And
yet, for us, the good news is also this: that not even a global pandemic can
arrest Jesus Christ, or us, in proclaiming the good news.
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