Where does your hope lie in this day ? Are we dependent on our ability to live a righteous life, are we placing our hopes in ourselves? The Bible tells us that our hopes should be in Jesus, God knew of our sinful nature. Before Jesus came down to the earth to give His life a ransom for many, He searched the whole world for somebody to do His work and nobody was found, it says in the Bible: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Nobody was found perfect, that is the reason He sent His only begotten Son to rescue us from our sinful nature and bring us into His glory: "God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation...God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God" (1 Corinthians 5:19, 21).
Our Hope lies in Christ, He is author and perfecter of our faith, because we are not saved by our works but by His grace. That is the reason He is the King of Kings. Our job is to be led by the Holy Spirit and to try and present our bodies a worthy sacrifice unto God. The love that Christ lavishes on us is truly magnificent, He says in Isaiah 1:16,17 "Stop doing wrong...learn to do right". He knows that we are bound to fail, but thats okay, just learn to do right, and renew our minds daily upon His word and keep strong in our faith until His return. This is the reason why David says "though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with His hand." Let us today trust Jesus with all our hearts and walk in His paths, if you stumble its okay, just bring your problems to His feet, because in our weaknesses His grace is more than sufficient. I just want to remind everybody today, that our hope lies in Jesus, because of His resurrection from the dead, we are saved, like Paul said if Christ wasn't resurrected than we wasted our lives. I just want to leave you with this verse to mediate upon:
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time."
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