November 04, 2016
It is what sustains the soul. It is the lighthouse in dark storms and the lifeboat in troubled seas. It's what keeps you afloat when issues around you seem overwhelming. Hope.
My grandad used to sit on his porch and in response to some questions would say, ""I hope so,"" i.e., ""I'm not sure it will happen, but I wish it would."" Biblical hope is far different. It is the assured confidence that what God has promised He will deliver. And, our hope as believers is based on the “sure and steadfast” promises of God.
For instance, our eternal hope is in heaven. God has made promises for those who have trusted Him that we will leave this life and have an eternal, perfect, glorious home with Him. It is our confident hope. This hope carries us in this life and is our source of peace during the inevitable ordeal of death.
But it’s possible to have hope available, but not active in our lives. There is a step we must take. We must lay hold of hope. If not, we feel hopeLESS.
Hebrews 6 reminds us of this, and it is something we need right now in the midst of the seemingly hopeless moral and spiritual decline we see all around us in our nation.
""In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."" (Hebrews 6:17-20)
Why do I have hope right now? Because God has made me promises—over 7,000 of them in His Word! I have the confident assurance that, regardless of what happens around me …
Lift up your head today. Take hold of the hope set before you and anchor your soul!
February 04, 2025
There are adjustments that must be made if you desire to live in the presence of God all day long. There must be a turning from and a turning to.
January 31, 2025
What is the greatest protection we can possibly have? Where is the wisest leadership? Who can provide for us when no one else is able? Is there one who has an inexhaustible supply? Is there somewhere we can go and be protected in every needed way from all enemies? Where our hearts can be at rest, even as the world swirls around us
January 30, 2025
How could we whittle all of human living down to its two most significant moments? It’s simple.
