God is the Gospel

"This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”   John 17:3 NASB

“The gospel of Christ is the good news that at the cost of his Son’s life, God has done everything necessary to enthrall us with what will make us eternally and ever-increasingly happy—namely, himself.”   --- John Piper

God is the "good news." Jesus came and died that we might have access to the throne room of heaven. God is the reward, not a means to an end. If you came so you could avoid hell, or so you could see your loved ones in heaven, then you came for the wrong reason. Even worse, if you came thinking you would be blessed with health, wealth and prosperity here on earth then you have been tragically misled.

A.W. Tozer said it like this:

"When the Lord divided Canaan among the tribes of Israel, Levi received no share of the land. God said to him simply, "I am thy part and thine inheritance," and by those words made him richer than all his brethren, richer than all the kings and rajas who have ever lived in the world. And there is a spiritual principle here, a principle still valid for every priest of the Most High God.

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever.

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.”


If God is all there is in heaven, would you still want to go?


"Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:25-26 ESV