Our world is not a place that lends itself to hope. When you consider deaths, diseases, natural disasters, evil and other negatives; there’s not a lot of room for hope.
But I find a powerful hope — a comforting hope — in the letter the Apostle Paul wrote to encourage some Christians at Thessalonica. They worried about their deceased loved ones.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. . . .
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The following song boosted my hope in the car this morning.
“On the resurrection morning — When all the dead in Christ shall rise — I'll have a new body — Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
Sewed in weakness, raised in power — Ready to live in Paradise. — I'll have a new body — Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life.” — Luther G. Presley
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