4-12-09: A Few Fundamentals of Hope

Especially in a such a time as this, there's still hope. You may think we have it hard now, but even Job had his hardships, it goes like this in 7:6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope."

Let's move on to 14:14 "If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come." Remember, this is in Old Testament times before Christ's birth. Acts 23:6 kinda ties in with this "Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, 'My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead.'" Job was unsure at the time whether a man would live again while Paul had hope in resurrection.

Again, with John 11:23-25 when Jesus was ensuring Martha that "Your brother will rise again." She even answered that she knew "he will...in the resurrection at the last day."

Here's something, most of ya'll must've heard of WD-40, yeah? This is what you my not have known, the letters WD are Water Displacement and the number 40 meant it was the 40th attempt to get it right. The makers knew it was there but didn't just give up at the first crack, hence the saying "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Should you like to learn more of it, go here. Anyway, that phrase still holds true, just because you couldn't get it right at first, hope is still there.

We all may remember David and Goliath. He had hope and took the decision of belief that God did deliver Goliath into David's hand. Many think Christianity is all about rules and regulations. Not entirely true; don't trip about them and just give yourself to Jesus and let him worry about them, which is the one thing to do.

To end this today, I'll say this: hope is still around. Don't give up on the first try and keep going. Hope is biblically a joyful and confident trust of eternal salvation.