A Prayer about Why the Gospel Is Such Good News
A Prayer about Why the Gospel Is Such Good News
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mark 1:1
Good Father,
Our world seems to be drawn to bad news,
so much so that we can even watch it 24 hours a day
on TV, on our phones, on our tablets.
And yet, our souls truly long for good news,
and your gospel is precisely that.
The word gospel literally translates as “good news.”
This good news is “of Jesus Christ,”
meaning it belongs to Jesus the Messiah,
the King of your kingdom.
This good news is also about Jesus Christ.
It is true that it is [almost] unbelievably good news,
for the story goes that you sent your Son,
a divine King,
into the world as a human baby
born from a virgin’s womb.
But not only that, you sent your Son,
your sinless Son,
who perfectly satisfied you,
as the Savior for your sinful people,
who could never satisfy you.
Good Father, help us to grasp this truth—
we could never earn your love.
We could never pay the debt of our sin.
Nothing we have done in our lives
makes us good enough to be forgiven.
And in that is the amazingly good news:
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21).
Father, how we thank you for your goodness to us in Christ.
May we live in gratitude for this good news,
and may we share it with everyone we meet.
In Jesus’ good name. Amen.
Read Mark 1:1-11.
![Will you join me in lament for those with chronic illness?
For he has not despised or scorned
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help. Psalm 22:24
Good Father,
Today we lift up our friends
who have searched and searched and searched,
who have waited and waited and waited
…for health, for wholeness, for healing.
We join in their lament
using the words of David:
“My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me?”
[Don’t you hear my groaning?]
“O my God, I cry by day,
but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest” (Ps. 22:2).
How we thank you, Heavenly Father,
that you have given voice to our lament
in your Word.
As David names his grief to you,
he remembers his reason to trust in you,
and he asks boldly and persistently for help.
We join him on behalf of all of our friends
who have suffered for years:
“In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them”
(Ps. 22:4).
“Be not far from me, for trouble is near,
and there is none to help”
(Ps. 22:11).
As we raise our cry for help,
may we remember that you are the good Father,
and may we join with David in praising you,
for we have even more reason to hope:
your Son, our Savior was forsaken on the cross
that we might be forgiven,
that we might one day live with you
in eternal glory,
in whole and healed bodies forever and ever.
Read Psalm 22.
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