God is our blessed hope! Man’s existence is miserable and futile without hope. It may shock you to know most millionaires and billionaires are desperately unhappy. They thought money and power would bring them happiness but it can’t. The rich people who are happy are those who have put their trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. When I was young, it was uncomfortable to think I might die one day and go to hell forever. I did what a lot of us do. I put off thinking about it because I had a lot of life yet to live and I knew I could decide about that later. I was saved when I was 12 but when I became a backslider a few years later I thought I wasn’t saved anymore. I worried about going to hell needlessly for 40 years. Once I returned to the Lord and started studying God’s Word I realized once you’re saved God never lets you go. Once your name goes into the book of life it’s there permanently.
For those who have never been saved, you take a terrible risk every minute you wait. An accident or heart attack could take your life before you have a chance to give it to Jesus. Don’t wait! Seek God while He may be found. There is no do-over. Each of us has one life, our “time of decision,” that God gives us so that we can decide whether or not to accept His offer of mercy and grace unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. No decision is the same as deciding to decline God’s offer of eternal life in heaven with Him. God sent His beloved Son into the world to give us hope. God sent the Holy Spirit into the world at Pentecost to give us hope. God sent His Word into the world to give us hope. Apart for God there is no hope and there is no peace. At the end of his life King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, came to this conclusion. I’m just repeating it because I also know it’s true. God is our blessed hope! Cling to God while it is still day!
Romans 15:4 – For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
Titus 2:13 – Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:13 – 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.