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We try to hold on to people, places, and things with everything we have. We do our best to heal divisions within our families, resolve conflict with friends and do what we can to be a peacemaker. We do our part to encourage others and hope others will do the same.
We pray and hope for family and friends’ physical, emotional
and spiritual healing. We hope for
peace, reconciliation, and restoration in our communities and relationships. We see the tears of disappointed people we
know or just met and feel their pain.
We hear the stories of people at the end of their rope. They are rich and poor, young and old who are
weary and undone. Speechless. Words
can’t even express their sorrow. Take this pain away God or take me home…
Hoping for a better day and a better tomorrow.
In this age of social influencers and celebrities selling
immediate gratification for their benefit at our expense, it just adds to the mix of frustration, apathy, and indifference.
As Bob Dylan sang, “I used to care, but things have changed.” All this
gets downright discouraging and many have become disengaged and completely isolated.
COVID hasn’t helped…
In this crazy mixed-up world where wrong has become right
and right has become wrong we all have one thing in common, the need for hope. What
we believe about our hope directly impacts how we are experiencing our present.
We are irreducibly hope-based creatures. As Christ-followers God’s Word
declares that one day we will enter into a glorious rest with indescribable
wonders.
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has
prepared for those who love him.” I Corinthian 2:9
On the one hand, we can't possibly comprehend or imagine
what heaven will be like. Yet, the Bible gives us so much information about
heaven that it is right for us to think about what the future holds. Revelation
21 provides some of the best and most beautiful insight into our future
resting place.
We can hold on to our hope and promise that there will come
a day when “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more
death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed
away.” Revelation 21:4 Songwriter
Jeremy Camp put it this way:
“We’ll see Jesus face to face, but until that day we’ll hold on to you
always. I know the journey seems so
long you feel you’re walking on your own, but there’s never been a step where
you walked out all alone. Troubled soul don’t lose your heart cause joy and
peace He brings and the beauty that’s in store outweighs the hurt of life’s
sting.”
Are you looking forward to that day when the One you’ve lived
for will wipe away all the sorrows you’ve faced or are facing now? Please know
that there will be a better day ahead and until that day comes hold on to the
One who is your hope now in this life and into the next.
There is a better day coming!
Instead, they (Hebrews 11) were longing for a better
country—a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God,
for he has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:16
