The Good News of the Kingdom

Jesus begins by proclaiming the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Most considered that to be very good news. Some didn’t.

many still don’t.

The Good News is that God exists, God is really God. And the Kingdom of God is Jesus. But many people are tempted to want a world, a Kingdom without God so they can do whatever they please without negative consequences.

Doing what we please usually means giving into our default desires, giving into pride and sloth and lust, giving into our vices. But giving into our vices only makes us vicious, and who wants to live in a world full of vicious people? Who wants to be vicious?

The Good News is that Jesus did something beyond our imagination. He comes to live in our soul which will make us share in God’s life – instead of becoming vicious, we become virtuous, we will become divine.

And with Jesus living in us now, we can reach our full potential here on earth. Then we can do the greatest good for others and the whole world.

Jesus living in us now gives us the power to overcome our sinful self-destructive tendencies.

That is very Good News!