OUR BLESSED HOPE

IOI CHRISTIAN MEAL. Thursday 26th/2013

TOPIC: OUR BLESSED HOPE

Our world is not a place that lends itself to hope. In fact, when you consider the death, diseases, natural disasters, evil, and all the other negative things that fill our world, there is just not a lot of room for hope.

Hope is a powerful thing.

G. K. Chesterton said, “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”

·       Emily Dickinson, in one of her poems said, “Hope is a thing with feathers,/That perches in the soul.”

·       O. S. Marden said, “There is no medicine like hope .
·       Pliny the Elder, an ancient Roman philosopher wrote, “Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

·       Martin Luther said, “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”

         Here is how the dictionary defines hope: “to have a wish to get or do something or for something to happen or be true, especially something that seems possible or likely.”

         Hope, from the world’s viewpoint is just what that definition describes. The world sees hope as a wish or a desire. Hope, as the world sees it, is a longing for something that may or may not take place.

         The Bible teaches us that biblical is hope something entirely different than the wishful thinking of the world. Listen to the words of Psalm 31:24, “Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.” And again from Psalm 71:5, “For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.”Hear also Paul, “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity,” 1 Cor. 13:13.

         The world says that hope is merely a fond wish or desire. The words used for hope in the Bible, on the other hand, tell an entirely different story. They teach us that biblical hope is “A deep settled confidence that God will keep His promises!” Biblical hope is a “joyful, confident expectation”.

         In the face of the hopelessness that grips our world, there is one group of people that possesses genuine hope. The believer has hope!

         I do not know what tomorrow will bring my way. It may bring death, disease and disaster. It may bring sorrow, pain and hardship. It may bring blessing, joy and happiness. I may not know what tomorrow will bring, but I do know for sure that tomorrow might bring Jesus. Titus 2:13, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”

         The hope of the believer is wrapped up in the second coming of Jesus Christ. He is coming and His return brings us hope for all our tomorrows.

PRAYER

MAY YOUR HOPE NEVER BE VOID, MAY YOUR HOPE TURN TO REALITY, MAY GOD BLESS KEEP YOU FOCUS TILL YOU POSSESS  YOUR PROMISE LAND AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL IN LIFE IN JESUS NAME

AMEN.
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