June 6th. Day 6 of walking through “Reasons to Rehearse the Gospel Daily” — Part 1 of “A Gospel Primer for Christians” by Milton Vincent.

Today’s reason — Sufficiency in the Gospel.

And about this reason to rehearse the gospel daily, Vincent says this...

“The gospel serves as the means by which God daily constructs into what He wants me to beans also serves as the channel through which He gives me my inheritance every day of my Christian life. {Acts 20:32} Hence, it could be said that the gospel contains all that I need “for life and godliness.“ {2 Peter 1:3} It is for this reason that God tells me to be steadfastly entrenched in the gospel at all times and never to allow myself to be moved from there. {Colossians 1:23} The mere fact that God tells me to stay inside the gospel at all times must mean that He intends to supply all of my needs as long as I am abiding in that place of luxury. {Colossians 2:8-10, 2 Peter 1:3}”

This reason to rehearse the gospel daily had me thinking about the whole concept of abiding. How do we simply stay when so many other things attempt to pull us away by leading us astray. False gospels and other narratives vie for our attention and our devotion every single day, and yet the basis of the Gospel of Jesus Christ urges us to simply stay because it is the only way.

Another word for stay is REMAIN. The word nerd in me got to thinking about this word with “main” as the root and “re” as the prefix. Keeping the MAIN thing (Jesus Christ dying on a cross for you and me and then conquering death to set us free) the MAIN thing is the very thing and the only thing that holds us and keeps us rooted and established — immovable in our faith. So in order to “re”main, we must do what “re” implies — continual, again, over and over, every single day.

Rehearsing the gospel daily provides us with the repetition needed to remain in Him. He is our all sufficiency. Practicing His Presence is our cure for gospel deficiency.

So “re”mind yourself today to “re”hearse the gospel daily so you can “re”main in Him completely because within in the gospel we find our sufficiency.