Freedom is Good News Part 191

In our previous article I suggested that we all might accept the challenge “to come to our Father and His Son and to seek out His ways and His thoughts in His word.”  Yes, God has set forth His ways and His thoughts in the bible and He wants us to learn from Him. 

I drive a school bus and have a great deal of interaction with school age children.  Sometimes they complain about having to go to school and wish it were all over for them (All of us can identify with that!!)  But I usually try to encourage them by getting them to understand that we never really stop learning.  I joke with them and tell them that I am in 64th grade.  We may graduate from high school or even from college but learning is a life- long endeavor.

In the book of Matthew we read that Jesus “went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease …” (Matt. 4:23) I cannot imagine that there has ever been a greater teacher on earth than the Son of God. 

In the New Testament we find the word Rabbi used several times when the disciples and others addressed Jesus Christ.  This word is used as a term of respect for one who is considered a teacher; and Jesus was known as a teacher.  Even a prominent member of the Sanhedrin, Nicodemus, addressed Jesus like this, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God.” (John 3:2)

I suggest that there never was nor will be a teacher greater than our Savior and now that we, today, need teaching and direction and insight more than ever before I find it quite odd that more people are not opening their bibles to learn from the one who can open their minds up to the wonders of the universe and beyond!

I suggest that we are living in a world that is growing darker and darker to the ways of God.  And if you were paying attention, I just quoted a line from the book of Matthew that Jesus was preaching the good news of the kingdom.  Friends, there is tremendous good news in the words of scripture.  Paul tells his assistant Timothy in his second letter to him that, “All scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correction and training in righteousness, so that the man of God can be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Tim. 3:16)

If you see that we are sliding toward darkness in this world, then please take hope in what Jesus had to say in John 8:12, “I am the light of the world.  Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”  Do you believe that?  Jesus even went so far as to teach in the Sermon on the Mount that we are “the light of the world”.

Several years ago when I was first asked to write an article for the local newspaper, I desired to bring good news to you, the reader; thus the title above.  Jesus is the real teacher and He does teach about the “good news of the kingdom”.  His ways are perfect; so what is this Kingdom of God all about?