Dying with Christ? What do you hope for today? For some hope is narrow and easily spent. Others, however, invest their hope rather than spend it. They embrace it. The difference between these hopes comes down to this. Many are content to live with hope; yet some are content only when hope lives in them.
Think about it. People living with hope wear it and it shows. If something happens and their hopes are momentarily dashed, they reach deep down inside with the knowledge that there is always a hidden reserve of hope waiting to be brought to the surface.
God’s Word tells us: “The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing" (Proverbs 10: 28).
The world does not understand such hope because it is cloaked in a “skin” of sorrow, only realized fully in death, that only the believer, the one looking for sweet hope, can penetrate. Praise God that He has made us to know this hope. May it live within us today and return again tomorrow. It makes life so much sweeter when our hope is anchored in dying with Christ.
. “I pray today in Jesus name that as Christians we recognize daily that our life is intertwined in death, the death of Jesus Christ. This is what gives us our hope, that we die with Him eternally. Amen!”
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34) www.thispassingday.com
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