Have you ever felt like your faith is slipping away? I came across some more bad news on my cellphone. We are constantly bombarded with bad news every day of our lives. Then the quote so many people say when they haven’t heard from a specific family member, especially if they are, pardon my expression, ‘the problem child’, is “No news is good news” came to mind. Seems to me if you break that statement down to a simpler level, it means ‘out of sight, out of mind.’ In other words, if you can’t see it—it can’t or won’t affect you.

That statement “No news is good news” is contradictory to the scripture that says How beautiful upon the mountains, Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” (Isaiah 52:7 NKJV)

It seems to me we need all the glad tidings we can read and listen to in this dark and dying world—we all need hope and to know about the salvation of a Savior who says “How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Matthew 23:37 NKJV)

This is the good news of a Savior who gives you an illustration of how He cares for us as a hen broods over her baby chicks or says “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.” (Luke 15:4-6 NKJV) The illustration of a Savior who as a Shepherd will come after “just you ‘ because you are lost and without His loving protection.

In closing, I would submit to you that we choose our words more carefully because a world void of this news is certainly not a world full of good news at all. And if this profound word of God is out of our sight and out of our minds, then “those problem children” will be lost indeed!

Thank you for your continued readership and support. May the peace of God that passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7 NKJV) until next week—Blessings and Peace!

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