May 16
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Is there hope
“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope” 1Timothy 1:1
Almost everyone has a hope. Some hope there is no God. Some hope physical death is the end. Some hope in Buda. Some hope in Mohammad. Some hope in the pope. A vast multitude of Calvinists, Arminians, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals, etc hope in themselves. Their hope is their works and intellect. However, those who hope in any one or any thing other than the Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness really have no hope.
The Hope of the child of God is more than an anticipation of heaven and the avoidance of hell. Our Hope is a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ – “Looking for that blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” Titus 2:13.
The Hope of the believer is a present hope … That is to say, not just wishing that something might transpire in the future, “Which Hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil” Heb 6:19. The hope of the child of God is a living hope … Not just a documented creed or contract but a Hope that ever lives within the veil to make intercession for us. Better it would be if we were drowning to be in the arms of a lifeguard than just knowing there was a wooden throne on the beach with a sign that says “Lifeguard”.
Where THIS HOPE is there is no danger or despair, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans 8:35-39Tommy Robbins.