Resurrection

All people need hope. Without it life is fretful, dull, meaningless, difficult, and wasted. Our worldview will either ignore hope, at our expense, or embrace hope as the major component in discovering life as God designed it to be.

No one could have been more hopeless than “the Twelve” who followed Jesus of Nazareth throughout His ministry journey, and watched as He was taken captive, tried, sentenced to death, and ultimately murdered on Calvary’s cross. They were angry, bitter, discouraged, hiding in fear, and experiencing the reality that in spite of all the glory they had anticipated, Jesus was dead.

Our World system has created false hope in light of its choosing to ignore the revelation of God to men. Mankind hopes for success, financial freedom, good times, an abundance of baubles and trinkets, and at the end of it all a God who accepts all comers for an Elysian Fields eternity consistent with the human appetites that have consumed their life.

Such hope is valueless and wretched in the end.

Rather, Hope is the discovery of the women who entered the garden were the Messiah had been buried. Hope fueled their response as they told members of “the Twelve.” Hope was the disclosure that they were searching for the living among the dead. Hope was the revelation that salvation of mankind was accomplished, and Christ was alive, risen from the dead as first fruit of all those who were to come by grace, through faith, to eternal life. Hope is an empty tomb. Hope is burning hearts on the road to Emmaus. Hope is breakfast by the sea on coals of wood gathered by the Master’s hand. Hope is watching from the hillside as the One who had been dead ascended into Heaven.

Hope is not a feeling, or a thing, nor a promise, rather it is the Savior, our Savior, our hope full and sure, living within and without. He’s alive! He’s alive!! He’s alive!!!

And those who believe are alive. . .now and forever!!!