Good Morning All,
Romans
15:13; “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
as you trust
in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy
Spirit.”
It
was the phone call that every parent fears.
There had been a car accident.
Someone had run through a stop sign, never even slowed down. Neither car was recognizable. Six high school kids all together in the two
vehicles. Two were dead, three in
serious condition and one was flown to a larger hospital. When the parents of the one that was flown
out arrived at the hospital, the doctors sat down with them and had a rather
short discussion with them.
The doctors explained that there was
internal bleeding and massive head trauma.
They would know more in a couple of days but the doctors told the
parents, “there isn’t much hope.” That
kind of a statement can be very difficult to handle. No one wants to hear that there is no
hope. No one wants to feel that all is
lost. To lose hope is to lose
everything. That is why the devil tries
so hard to deprive you of hope, when you lose hope; you have nothing.
That is what God gives us; he gives us hope. He gives us hope because we know that sin,
the devil and even death do not hold us.
They will take their swipes at us but they do not own us or control us. We have the certainty of God’s promise of
salvation. We have God’s promise of life
eternal with him. This is his
guarantee. Eternal life with God living,
celebrating and rejoicing in the perfect creation; that is what we have waiting
for us. The devil can never take that
away from us.
Even though bad things happen to us, we
always have hope. Hope in the certainty
of God’s eternal love. Hope is the
certainty of eternal life. That is what
we cling to. All those loved ones, some
we think left us too soon, will be reunited with us in heaven. We will share eternal life with all the
saints in the glory of God. We have
hope. The lies and the pain that the
devil throws at us are only attacks and not truths. We are never without hope. We will face the pain of this broken world;
sin causes pain, it always has and it always will but it will not destroy
us. It will not take from us what God
gives us; sin will not take away our hope.
So even though there may be times of pain
and struggle, we can face them. We can
face them knowing that our heavenly Father is there with us. Keeping us in his arms as we face the battles
of this broken world. We face the fight
but we are never alone and we know that we will be with our loved ones again
when Christ returns and we are all reunited with him in love and glory. We face the battles but we face them with the
certainty of hope. We have hope that God
is love and his reign is eternal. We
have hope that our present pain is nowhere near our future glory. We have hope; we always have and always will.
Father
of love, in you we have hope. Help us to
never lose sight of this. Help us to
always look to you for our hope. We ask
that you be with those who feel that they have lost all hope. Send your spirit of comfort and use us to bring
the consolation which they need. In
Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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