What are you hoping for this CHRISTmas? Remember when we hoped for the new bike🚲 or new action figure....well, for the girls maybe a new Barbie🙎? Nowadays it is a new i-phone📱 or even a new car🚘! You know, the one in the driveway on CHRISTmas morning with the giant red bow🎀 on the hood? Nevertheless, it what we may receive or want to receive. However, through Christ, hoping is believing! We, as followers of the Risen Savior, know that we have eternal life through Christ Jesus and we look forward to . . . or HOPE in that day!
Many are without hope today. They are hoping for that special something to occur and life depends upon that hope. Yet this world offers so many false hopes . . . in relationships, jobs, even a cure for illnesses. Trusting in Christ brings assurance. No matter what comes our way, we trust that God has it all under control and one day . . . one day it will all be just perfect!
You have multiplied the nation and increased its joy;
They rejoice before You, according to the joy of harvest,
as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
For You have broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder . . . The rod of his oppressor . . . (Isaiah 9:2-4)
Knowing Jesus has us today and will have us tomorrow breaks the bonds of false hopes. It gives us a different mind set. It allows us to keep moving forward despite the ups, downs, broken dreams and disappointments in life. Today may be a challenge, but tomorrow will be fantastic!
Keep hope alive!
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