ROOM FOR JESUS - Day 7 of 8 - Hope
Life can be tough. I currently have friends dealing with financial issues, unemployment, major health concerns, family struggles and more.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope,”
When life hands us disappointments, struggles and trials, do we leave room for the God of hope?
Romans 15:13 [NKJV] Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
God wants us to abound in hope. He isn’t looking for us to have just a ray of hope – a small sliver of assurance that there is something better ahead. Before we made room for Jesus in our lives, we did not have real or abundant hope.
Ephesians 2:12 [NKJV] that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Now we have hope in this life because our hope is pinned on something more, something greater, something eternal that is coming and because Jesus, as with all things, has gone before us into that hope.
Hebrews 6:18-20 [NLT] 18 So God has given both His promise and His oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to Him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. 19 This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God's inner sanctuary. 20 Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Sweet friends, God is faithful. Long ago, He called us His children and created us to be just that. So, in this life we must make room for Jesus in our lives. He is our hope.
1 Corinthians 15:19 [NKJV] If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
But we are not “of all men the most pitiable” because we have hope in this life that is based on looking toward the hope we have in the promises of God. The Father faithfully sent His son to die for us, as He outlined in the beginning. He will faithfully complete that work. So we can hold onto that hope – we can have hope when situations seem hopeless and we cannot see a way – because Jesus made the way and went on before us.
Hebrews 10:23 [NLT] Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
Is there room for Jesus when we need hope?
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