Beginning

The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, God’s Son, happened just as it was written about in the prophecy of Isaiah:

Look, I am sending my messenger before you.
He will prepare your way,
a voice shouting in the wilderness:
        “Prepare the way for the Lord;
        make his paths straight.”

John the Baptist was in the wilderness calling for people to be baptized to show that they were changing their hearts and lives and wanted God to forgive their sins. Everyone in Judea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to the Jordan River and were being baptized by John as they confessed their sins. John wore clothes made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. He announced, “One stronger than I am is coming after me. I’m not even worthy to bend over and loosen the strap of his sandals. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (Mark 1:1-8, CEB)

Mark is an interesting gospel. Everything is and immediately, and it ends with the women leaving the tomb and saying nothing to nobody. Yes there are verses after that but most scholars agree they were added later because people didn’t like the story ending with the women leaving the tomb and saying nothing to nobody.

But it’s not an ending.

Mark and the passage above begins, “The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ” and the end of the book is the end of the beginning.

We are still writing the good news of Jesus Christ in the world.

So share love and continue the good news!

Loving People. Loving God.