There is Always Hope In Jesus...

What I mean is that no matter how bad things can get in this life, the one who believes in Jesus always has something better to look forward to.

This is because the most important aspect of life is to be made right with your Creator. When he hung between heaven and earth on the cross of the curse of God, Jesus cleared up the issues which separated us sinners from our Creator. He put us back on God’s side, and made a way for the LORD to accept us sinners as his own children.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.(Proverbs 3:12)

The Bible says that “Hope Deffered makes the heart sick…” . This generation suffers immensely from a terrible heart sickness. Our post Christian world has inculcated children into various false, godless gospels, such as the gospel of self esteem, or of socialism, or human potential, or the current gospel of sexual anarchy, or the gospel of consumerism and technology.

These and many other atheistic fad gospels of the past sixty years, have literally created a heart sick, nihilistic, jaded and debauched generation; sated with experiences of all kinds, promising a bright and godless future, yet leaving them with nothing to look forward to.

The symptoms of this heart sickness are; boredom, jadedness, nihilism, disrespect for the human body ( Sexual sin and tattoos, piercing) and intense cynicism. This heart sickness is at the root of the suicide epidemic sweeping the world.

What is there to look forward to? What experiences haven’t this jaded generation already had? They have already been sexualized, stimulated and over-entertained, and pychologized (self esteem), what remains? Only the Utopian politicization that the left is herding them into in the schools and Universities.

The message of scripture desperately needed by this generation is simple, “There is Hope in Jesus…” .

When people are told that they can have everything in this life, and that the meaning of life is to extract as much living as possible from it, they usually end up sad and depressed, because they come to realize that at its very best, this life is still unsatisfying and vain. “Vanity of vanities… all is vanity”.

The gospel completely re-orients us and delivers our disappointed souls from the false message, for we see that this life is only a preparation and proving ground for the next life.

Jesus puts us back “in the right” with God, (righteousness) and shows us a future that God has ordained for those who will be his. This is what Christian hope is; it is not a mere wish or an ideal, it is a secure and sure future.

Peter tells us we are “...born again to a Living hope…To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you…”(1 Peter 1:3-9)

Jesus has promised us a Kingdom, New bodies, a New Heaven and a new Earth, a new Life with the Father in heaven where there are no more sorrows, tears, pains or disappointments. Jesus himself is described as “our hope” who has gone into heaven before us and serves as an anchor of our souls, holding our place there.

No matter what befalls us in this sin sick and sorry world, the Christian has something better to look forward to. We have a hope that has sustained Christians to endure persecution, trial, and even death with calm courage and confidence that their toil and labor and pains are never in vain, God will use all of them for our good and his glory.

2 posted on 01/13/2019 7:39:02 AM PST by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)

Amen

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

As always, your work strikes a deep chord with everything that I see around me in society and how it relates to God's Word. I would change one thing here though.

"..sated with experiences of all kinds.." - I do not think they/we are sated. I think the thirst all these experiences create, experienced outside the knowledge of God and an understanding of His Grace, Mercy, and redemptive plan, is a desire for more. And more. So, deeper still into the rabbit hole, we go.

Why? Because a little leaven leavens the whole loaf. So, one tattoo won't be enough. One little test run into some sexual deviance from the standard, will always require another...and another. A little leaven will always, in all things, leaven the whole loaf. Therefore, there is no 'sated'. We will always crave more.

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