Living In Hope

Christ did not bring you into the world so you would always look down in hopelessness and dejection. Christ brought you into the world to live in His power of hope and promise for eternity. There may be no time in your life that seems to look the darkest than the time just before your death. However, you are often deceived by appearances because the time just before your death is a time full of eternal hope and eternal promise. In the times of your life when it seems, there is no hope for anything good to happen to you or for you, total goodness and joy await you as if time did not exist. In Christ and because of Christ, the times when you have no hope are times when there is for you hope eternal. In the times when you have no joy, there is already joy waiting to be poured out upon your heart for all eternity. Christ came to give you hope for every second you are alive. Christ walked away from death in the grave to give you hope. Christ is alive today and calls you to live in hope. Christ walks and talks with you every second you are alive to get you to look beyond the way things are…to a time when all things will be made new. Christ calls you to look forward to a time when every hope will be realized in His eternal stream of love and grace. For all of this, give Christ praise, honor, and glory.