Tuesday, January 15, 2013

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HOPE?

Hope is not to be moody among we believers.  Our God can do anything He wants any time He wants where ever He wants.  Period.

Our call is not to manipulate His movement in correlation to our wants.  Our call is to know God is never through even when all signs declare it's over.

We are to be a people who look not just to Jesus; but to the resurrected Jesus.  His seating at the right hand of God is to remind us that even when his most intimate disciples walked away that Friday with utmost disappointment....it wasn't over. 

Moreover, the sheer nothingness of the darkened hill that possessed the crucified Lord simply made the storyline of God even bigger. So do not be discouraged.  Let a down time lead to your wow moment!  Darkness only causes the diamond to shine brighter.

We get so moody with God's show.  We are up because things go well; but tend to sink when facts of reality do not give us the message of hope....that we had hoped.

God can cause things that aren't yet to come into existence; plus He can give life to the dead...Romans 4:17.  The next words and context?  Hope!  Of course!  Hope!

And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance proven character, and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us....Romans 5:3-5.

When a person is resurrected through the event of baptism, the Holy Spirit is received...Acts 2:38.  Too many have been baptized into Christ only to walk around as hopeless as one who knows not God.  Wake up my friend.  We have hope regardless of the mood of the day...or of the people. 

Jesus sets the tone because he beat death.  He is resurrected so that we can face every beating with a wink.  We win.

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