Hope~Wait for it! In His Word Advent Day 6

 Wait for it! Hope in the Word, Advent Day 6  12-06-2025

Here we are at the end of our hope! Well the end of the week at least! Hopefully we have learned as we focused on the Word and Hope this week is that hope is an eternal, and internal thing. Its something we will live with daily as a Christ follower, the hope of His return. 

First they hoped for the Messiah, and then He came. To some that was enough, then more learned that He is coming again!Hope is strong, though it is soetimes defered or put on hold for a while if we keep out trust and hope in the right place then we will be able to stand before Him knowing we stood firm!

After all, what gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you!  1Thessalonians 2:19

Our hope comes from the Lord, the maker of the heavens and the earth.

For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.  Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,  the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.  We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)Romans 8:19-25

And now since we come to the end of the week we know our hope will not end until it completes its task, sort of the same as the Word of God. Hope means we have to wait sometimes a long time but we can be patient and confident that the one who gave us the hope will help us to wait for it! In Jesus' name!

Tomorrow begins a new Word in the Word for Advent week 2!I can't wait to see what God will do! How about you? 

See you then!

Hope for a Better Me! Advent Day 5

 

Hope for a better me! Advent Day 5. 12-05-2025

Advent means, in it's noun form; the arrival of a notable person or thing. 

He has arrived long ago but we must choose to accept His presence in our lives to find the Hope for today!

When Christ died to “save us from our sins” He saved us from ourselves! We as humans make life hard to deal with. We fight the good and choose the bad behaviors and opinions and  what we should do we do not do. As Paul said that which I would do I don’t do and that which I don’t want to do I do.

So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.  When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.  But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit. Romans 7 :4-6

So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.  But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.  So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.  I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.  But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. Romans 7:14-20

 

 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.  Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?  Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So, you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin. Romans 7:21-25

Thankfully God knows our heart and mind both want to follow after His Hope, He gives us the strength through the Holy Spirit to grab ahold of the Hope of that wonderful day when we will choose His Way over ours and turn from sin to become the people He created us to be.

And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God,  while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed. He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds. Titus 2:12-14

We can then chose life over death, freedom over slavery, and faith over fear with the Hope of the Holy Spirit in us to guide us through this rough world and human nature to devote our lives to God and His wisdom always, not just once a week!

Heavenly Father, put a strong lock over my mouth that I would only say the things you would have me say and do what you would have me do no matter the opposition. Give me faith over fear as I put my trust and Hope in You. Every day let me live for you in all I do.  In Jesus’ name.