Some News

Hello. Thanks for taking the time to stop by during your busy day. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Patrick. Let me start by letting you know that I have some bad news and some extraordinarily good news to share with you. I should probably start with the bad news first, because it’s very bad news.

Humanity is in a pickle. No. That’s an understatement. Mankind is doomed.

Mankind is broken; I’m broken, you’re broken, we’re all broken.  In fact, some of us are, maybe, more broken than others. But that’s not the point here. What matters is that we recognize that we’re all in this together, and that we’re all broken.

You may or may not realize this, but everyone has a dark side. Even the best of us do. Don’t believe me? Look around you. Go for a drive on the interstate, or drive in rush hour traffic. Watch the evening news. We are not as we want to be or even as we should be. That is why we have traffic courts; that is why we lock up our houses and cars.

The Bible tells us, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23 New English Translation). In other words, we don’t measure up to God’s standard – no matter how hard we try, or how good we are.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying there aren’t good things that people do for each other. There definitely are. You’ll see that on the evening news, also. You’ll see that in kindness shown to strangers, or in sacrifices made during a crisis. People can be good, but not good enough for God.

Now for the extraordinarily good news: God has accounted for this failure of mankind with the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ. You see, Jesus, who is God, took on the flesh of humanity and, having lived the perfect unblemished life here on earth gave his life as a sacrifice for us.

The Bible explains, “For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NET).

God has acted in history, by reaching out to us, by redeeming us. We can’t do anything to reach out to God, to earn His love because, as we saw earlier, we fall short of His expectations. We can, however, call on Jesus as our Savior. That’s why he died for us: to redeem us. Because we’re not able to be good enough, we need a savior.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, “… I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6 NET).

The Apostle Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that, “… if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10: 9 NET).

That’s it. That’s all you need to start on your journey of redemption. If you’re curious and want to learn more, or want me to pray for you, please feel free to email me at posowski81@gmail.com I would love to explore this further with you.