"How long has it been since you looked up from the earthly details of life and came face to face with the Grand Canyon of what God has done for us in the gospel-his unfathomable grace in forgiving people who have rebelled against him , his breathtaking plan to send his Son to suffer and die in their place, to establish the throne of the resurrected Jesus over a kingdom of perfect righteousness, and to bring those who are saved and redeemed by his blood into a new heavens and new earth where sin and evil will be forever conquered!"