Finding Hope at Easter
1st Peter 1:3-5
People
today are searching for hope amid financial struggle, amid personal despair,
and family tragedy. The world knows only
of a dying hope. The Bible says, “Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish” (Job
8:13 ESV).
In
Contrast, believers in Christ have a living hope. We are reminded in (Jeremiah 29:11 ESV) “For I know the plans I have for you,
declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and
a hope.”
The
Bible delivers that hope in the good news of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection of
Jesus Christ is the reason for our Hope. It was the hope of a living redeemer
that sustained Job in the midst of suffering. “As for me, I know that my
Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth” Job 19:25 (NASB).
The
Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation for all Christian hope. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the
life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.” John
11:25 (NKJV)
The
Resurrection of Christ is a pledge to you that you will also be raised to new
life. Because His resurrection is our
resurrection. (Revelation 1:17-18
KJV) “… Fear not; I am the first and the
last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore…”
The
Resurrection is the heart of the gospel message (1st Corinthians 15:1-3). Therefore our belief of the resurrection is
essential to our salvation. (Romans 10:9
KJV) That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Viktor
Frankl, in Man’s Search for Meaning, tells of his days in a World War II death
camp and prison. He said, “The person who lost his faith in the future-his
future- was doomed” (p. 74). He mentions further that those who had hope
increased their chances for survival, the hope of seeing a loved one again or
the hope of a dream they possessed.
The
hope of Christ will never let you down and will sustain you through the deepest
valleys of your life. Romans 5:5 (NKJV) Now hope does
not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by
the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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