The Gospel in Three Lines

1 - God is the Most High.

2 - God loves you.

3 - And you must become His child again to receive everything.

This is the Gospel. This is the kerygma. The blazing center of it all.

1. God Is the Most High

Everything begins with God—not a vague idea of God, but the real, living God who is the Most High.

“For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome,

the great King over all the earth.”

—Psalm 47:2

God is not just part of the universe. He is the Creator of everything.

He is power without limit, beauty without blemish, wisdom without flaw.

He is the One from whom all things come and toward whom all things move.

And He didn’t create the world because He needed something.

He created out of love, freely pouring out His own goodness into creation.

“But St. John goes even further when he affirms that ‘God is love’: God's very being is love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange.“

—Catechism of the Catholic Church §221

You were not an accident. You were not unwanted.

You were created by the Most High God—the God of beauty, power, and joy—

to live in His love.

2. God Loves You

This truth is not general. It is personal.

The God who made the stars also formed you.

He knows your name. He knows every wound. And He loves you without measure.

“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me…

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

—Psalm 139:1,13

Even when we turn away from Him—even when we try to live life on our own terms—

He never stops seeking us. His love is not based on our goodness.

It is based on His.

“But God proves his love for us in that

while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

—Romans 5:8

He didn’t stay distant. He came.

God entered our world in Jesus Christ. He took on our sin.

He died, rose again, and now offers us the one thing we cannot give ourselves:

Life. Real life. Eternal life.

3. You Must Become a Child Again to Receive Everything

Here is the mystery: to receive this life, you don’t need to earn it.

You need to surrender.

You need to reclaim your childlike dependence.

To return to the truth: you are not God. You never were.

But God is a Father. And He delights in giving you everything.

“Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,

you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

—Matthew 18:3

What does that look like?

It looks like Psalm 131:

“O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,

my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

too great and too marvelous for me.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother.”

—Psalm 131:1–2

That is what God wants: not your performance, but your trust.

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord,

and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

—St. Augustine, Confessions

You are made to rest in Him.

Not to figure everything out. Not to prove your worth.

But to become small again. To be held.

To receive everything from the Most High.

This Is the Gospel

Here it is again, with nothing added and nothing taken away:

• God is the Most High. He is awesome, holy, beautiful, and beyond all we can imagine.

• God loves you. He created you, died for you, and desires to give you His very life.

• You must return to Him like a child. Not to earn, but to receive. Not to control, but to rest.

This is not an idea. It’s an invitation.

He is waiting.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,

and I will give you rest.”

—Matthew 11:28