Always Our Hope.

I confess… the Lord Jesus was raised from the dead by God.

 

Jesus will return to the earth He left, calling all those that belong to Him- the living and the dead- to rise and meet Him in the air.

 

Right now we are kept by the power of God. Kept through faith to salvation. Salvation that will be revealed in the last time.

 

We continue to live our lives in a chaotic world but we live with hope. Our hope isn't in this world, our hope is in the Lord to save us. Our hope is in heaven with our Savior. In a little while He will return. It may seem like it is taking a long time- but whenever we long for something we have to wait for doesn't it almost always seem to make time slow down. When we are waiting for something so incredible it almost defies comprehension, is it any wonder it seems to be taking a long, long time?

 

With each of us given a life time of generally no more than at the most 100 years (rare exceptions to this rule live longer), and most of us with much shorter lives, 80 years, and some 70, 60, 50…. And less. With each individual given a finite number of days, we each wait for our LORD's return equally.

 

Abraham, David, Paul, Peter, all of them were given just a lifetime the same as we are and then death ended their lives and they each entered the sleep of the first death. They waited for their Lord each in their own way. Some waited for the arrival of the Messiah, others waited for the return of a Messiah they watched die and rise from the grave. We wait for the Messiah to return having not seen Him upon earth. Like those who died with the hope of His first arrival, they did not see it happen but died in hope, we wait having not seen. Our hope because we live and our hope until we enter death's sleep will be in the Messiah to return to call us home with Him. Someday there will be people who are waiting who will witness the Lord's return- we may be among them but if we are not, it is always our HOPE.

 

Hope.

 

Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Heb 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

 

1Jn 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 

 

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

 

Rom 10:9  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 

Rom 10:10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 

Rom 10:11  For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.