Our blessed hope

Our hope in a wonderful future with Jesus, our blessed hope, so key to our faith, is summed up like this: 'Because I [Jesus] live, you will live also' (John 14:19 NKJV). Because Jesus died, and then rose again, we have the hope of doing the same. God first resurrected Lazarus and Jairus' daughter, then he resurrected his own Son, in the most prophecy-fulfilling, awesome way possible. Because Jesus rose, we know we're assured of the fullest kind of life too, forever. That's the crux of the gospel. It's pretty significant.

Paul knew how important that truth is, and wanted the Corinthians, some of whom weren't convinced about the importance of Jesus' resurrection, to get it too. In 1 Corinthians 15:4-8 Paul lays out the facts... After his death, Jesus came back, and was seen by his friends, up close. Then he was seen by crowds. And, as Paul was writing, people who'd seen the resurrected Jesus were still alive to tell their individual stories. And, those individual's stories told the same thing... they'd seen a living, walking, talking Jesus. If we know anything about gaining proof, we'll know that solid witnesses are everything. Our faith has solid witnesses.

On our doubt-filled days, or on the days when people want us to prove our faith, let's remember: our blessed hope of eternal life with Jesus, of living the fullest of lives forever, is built on facts.



So what now? Tell someone about your blessed hope. Be confident in your well-rooted faith, and pray for an opportunity to share that hope today.





— SCRIPTURE —

'Looking for the blessed hope.' Titus 2:13 NKJV
— SOULFOOD —

Jer 10-13, Luke 21:20-24, Ps 69:1-18, Pro 8:27-29