Funny how you can chit-chat with neighbors for years, and then one day they say something that just floors you! Burt was out watering his glorious garden and I asked him how his mom was doing. “Well, she just turned 92 and has had a good life. That’s all you can hope for.”
Whoa!
Most people might have responded with something like, “Yep…glad she’s had a good life.” Or “92…that’s amazing!” Or “I hope I can be so lucky.”
But to me…it’s tragic. To think that this is all there is? And what about those who have NOT had a good life?
I shared with Burt that I don’t know what I’d do without the Lord as my hope. He didn’t like my response, but went on to say he doesn’t need God because he has mother nature.
Wow.
“Having no hope and without God in the world.” (Ephesians 2:12)
This painful, lonely little phrase speaks volumes about those who have chosen to push God away, and reject His free gift of eternal life through Jesus his Son.
The longer I live by the grace of God as His child, and learn and grow through the ups and downs of life, the brighter my hope grows! The more this body fades, and the world around me doesn’t offer all I thought it would, eternity with my Lord is the sweetest hope I could ever have.
Because our hope is rooted in God’s grace and trustworthiness, it is a solid hope! Not wishful thinking. But a sure thing!
“Our hope in Jesus is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.” (Hebrews 6:19)
And this hope is not just a future thing, but out of it flows joy and peace from a personal relationship with the Lord NOW.
You and I may be 92 some day, or 102, or may not make it past tomorrow. I pray that you too will have the solid hope that only comes from God. 💜
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13)
