Sunday, November 7, 2021
A chimney pipe plugged with creosote: (who can explain evil?)
This is What Life Looks Like
When We Have No Hope.
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The same chimney pipe after it’s unplugged: (that’s the work of the saints.)
This is What Life Looks Like
When God Gives Us Hope.
It’s Dark in Here,
But Christ’s Light Guides Us Home.
Isaiah 59:21
As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouths of your children, or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and for ever.
Romans 15:4
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
Words of Grace For Today
Hope.
Hope is that wonderful thing.
Hope is that wonderful thing that builds on the past that has become the present, and finds the future.
Hope is that wonderful thing that takes what is in front of us, projects it into the future, and comes up celebrating all the possibilities that God places in front of us.
God does as much as God knows we need: God makes a covenant with us, a one sided covenant where God does everything including making the covenant and making it something that gives us life!
God places God’s Spirit in and on us, and all around us, and places God’s Word in our mouths in such a way as it will never leave us, not us, nor our children, nor our children’s children, and on to the end of all time.
God’s Word is that all in our yesterdays, all our in todays, and all in our tomorrows will be well.
Since God says it has been, since God says it is, and since God says it will be, no matter what comes our way, no matter what challenges we face, no matter who tries to do us in, all is well with us and with all things we encounter.
This is what God has written.
This is what God has spoken.
This is what God has given us so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
And hope is that wonderful thing that undoes all that the Devil could possibly do to us, today and in all our tomorrows.