August 24
Job 12:1-15:35; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58; Psalm 39:1-13; Proverbs 21:30-31
What does the future hold? As we look ahead to the election, upcoming school year, financial uncertainty, and waning physical health, we can be filled with anxiety, worry, or fear however, Paul challenges us to look ahead to the guaranteed future to find hope.
As you were reading Job and then 1 Corinthians it may have felt like you were being slammed against the rocks of hopelessness and then glimpsed the beauty of hope. Job looks to his death and pictures it like a withering flower. In chapters 12-15 he focuses on the judgment to come and the finality of death. It often seems like darkness and hopelessness pervades his words. Yet even amid these ideas, he can still say, “My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.” This glimmer of hope is then fully exposed by Paul who describes the hope of eternal life. He speaks of the fact that though our earthly bodies will fade away, we will receive a glorified body for eternity. Paul wants us to understand the hope, victory, and glory that Christ brings. This is a hope that the world can’t touch. Regardless of your physical health, election results, or financial predicament, our hope should remain strong. It is a hope that has been purchased by Christ, secured by his blood, and that will become actualized at his return. So let us always walk in the hope of Christ’s resurrection and proclaim, “Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Father God, thank you for the hope I have in Jesus. Help me to make his resurrection reality the foundation of my life and always be filled with the hope, joy, and peace that you have given to me. Amen.
Question of the day: How can you remember the greater reality of hope when you feel anxious or afraid?
What does the future hold? As we look ahead to the election, upcoming school year, financial uncertainty, and waning physical health, we can be filled with anxiety, worry, or fear however, Paul challenges us to look ahead to the guaranteed future to find hope.
As you were reading Job and then 1 Corinthians it may have felt like you were being slammed against the rocks of hopelessness and then glimpsed the beauty of hope. Job looks to his death and pictures it like a withering flower. In chapters 12-15 he focuses on the judgment to come and the finality of death. It often seems like darkness and hopelessness pervades his words. Yet even amid these ideas, he can still say, “My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.” This glimmer of hope is then fully exposed by Paul who describes the hope of eternal life. He speaks of the fact that though our earthly bodies will fade away, we will receive a glorified body for eternity. Paul wants us to understand the hope, victory, and glory that Christ brings. This is a hope that the world can’t touch. Regardless of your physical health, election results, or financial predicament, our hope should remain strong. It is a hope that has been purchased by Christ, secured by his blood, and that will become actualized at his return. So let us always walk in the hope of Christ’s resurrection and proclaim, “Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Father God, thank you for the hope I have in Jesus. Help me to make his resurrection reality the foundation of my life and always be filled with the hope, joy, and peace that you have given to me. Amen.
Question of the day: How can you remember the greater reality of hope when you feel anxious or afraid?
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