A HOPE TO HOLD ONTO

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:23

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

If you were going to take an inventory of the most precious things any one person has, I believe hope would be at the top of the list. I say this because our very outlook on life itself hinges on whether or not we have it. This sentiment was echoed by Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who simply wrote:

“To live without hope is to cease to live.”

We all need hope. Everyone craves it, whether they want to admit it or not.

And yet, it seems to be so elusive for people, so much so in some instances that they surrender their spirits to feelings of utter hopelessness which is exactly the place where Satan wants us all to be. He’s very skilled at drying up any springs of optimism within us, leaving dry desolation and despair in its place.

Maybe you’ve been in this place before. Maybe...you’re there right now.

Thankfully, there is another option, one the enemy doesn’t want people to find.

This way to hope isn’t of this world because this world is not going to endure. A day is coming when Heaven and earth as we know it will pass away and when it does, there will only be two possible destinations for every single soul, and we all have a soul that will live on long after our bodies fail us.

One destination is a place of true despondency and misery. If you think this world and life is hopeless, you haven’t seen anything compared to the eternal damnation and torment that awaits an unsaved soul in Hell. I don’t know about you but knowing this is as depressing as it gets but unfortunately, a multitude of people will foolishly walk down that road to eternal perdition and a residency with the very Satan who enticed them there.

The good news is that a hope exists for every single person, one they can hold onto and be assured that everything is going to be okay, no matter what this life brings. It’s a hope only found by believing in Jesus Christ as Savior, receiving the free salvation offer God extends through His Son, and becoming a co-heir to the very Kingdom of Heaven. It’s the hope that we find the author of Hebrews writing about in chapter 10 as we read these words:

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. v. 23

Through Christ Jesus, every Christian believer has the sure victory over death and the grave. Death no longer has any sting and nothing can separate the saved Jesus follower from the love of God that is found in His Son. Our Lord has never made a promise that He didn’t keep and when He proclaimed that no one would perish but have everlasting life through belief in Him, He did so with the full intent of making good of His word.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, our belief in Jesus has brought us a certain hope that we need to hold onto “unswervingly” because our Lord is always faithful to what He has promised. The best is still yet to come for us, a life beyond the one we have now, a life where we will be made new and live forever, free of sin and affliction in glory, love, and light.

If you’re reading this today and you haven’t gained this hope yet, I urge you to believe in Jesus as Savior this very moment and grab a hold of your own assurance of hope. It’s a decision you will never regret.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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