The last best word is the one that God wants the whole world to hear and know.  The Last Best Word is the one that Jesus came to proclaim to all with ears to hear.
You’ve heard it before.  Jesus said, “For God so loved…”  Paul’s life was changed by this idea. He wrote to a church, “The love of Christ urges us on.”

God’s love, seen most clearly in the life and teaching of Jesus, urges us to see the world through the eyes of God’s love.

When we see the world this way we will begin to discover the power to practice the graciousness of God in our every day lives.  When we are able to see people through a grace-filled vision the church will begin to be the community of faith that God calls us to be.  Grace is what happens when love is our primary way of seeing in the world.

H. Richard Niebuhr wrote, “The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when somebody takes radically something that was always there.”

That’s a huge challenge.  It feels overwhelming.  Can I really love and see like God wants me to?  Sometimes I have a hard time forgiving people I already care about deeply.  How can we practice this all the time?

Maybe that’s where it begins. When I can learn to forgive those I love most, when we can learn to speak the words of Jesus to each other, we will begin to find the power to speak of grace to our world.

That is the best last word.

Grace and peace to you,
-Glen