Read: 1 Peter 1:3-9
“Do you think our economy will pick up next year?”
“Well I certainly hope so.”
“Do you believe our next president will help America get back to the roots of what our founding fathers intended and envisioned for this great nation? A nation with freedom which is strong, moral and prosperous who loves God, family, neighbors and I add supports Israel?”
We would have tremendous hope that he or she could.”
But please listen to me – The average man’s working definition of hope is “an optimistic outlook that things will turn out okay.” However, because such a view is founded on the ever-shifting sands of time, circumstances, people, and money, he has absolutely no foundation for genuine hope.
The bible says: “ 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:” (Ephesians 2:12)
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;” (1 Timothy 6:17)
Listen: Anything the world offers as hopeful allurements – peace, success, enrichment – are mere illusions because they have no lasting power to fulfill their promises. The hope of the world is, in the end, hopeless.
So what’s the Answer: It is only the person (nation) who has accepted the dynamic message of the abiding hope in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His finished work at Calvary’s Cross? Upon Him all true hope rests.
“Do you know Him today?”
