A Techno/Hope Post?
9:19 AM
Found a website today surfing while Collide Magazine's blog.
Enter Camron Ware.
Camron is doing some incredible things with projectors. I stand in awe! Be sure and check out his blog here. (This might be my next big project here in our youth department.)
Still praying...still journaling...Found a bit of hope this morning...
"Hope" appears as such a small word. By merely looking at it, it doesn’t seem like it would be all that much. It doesn’t appear powerful. It looks rather small. It’s made up of only four letters. However, this word carries the dreams of men and women everywhere.
Webster’s Dictionary defines “hope” as, “to cherish a desire with anticipation, or to expect with confidence.” This word has come to be used in everyday life. We use it for many different reasons all falling under this definition. For the Christian, though, this word is a life giving word. Why? Because the desire of our hearts, what we fervently cherish, is far greater than anything on this earth.
What is your hope? Can you answer that today? Are your struggles in vain?
The world might hide in darkness but your hope is unable to be hidden. Your hope is the light of revelation. All that are near it are exposed and the truth is revealed. This is why we must cling to our hope. So that the lost will find their way. Our hope shall be revealed upon this earth in its due time and we to, like the definition, are waiting in patience and love for that blessed day. Jesus is returning! Tell all who will listen and as far as you can shout the King returns!
Like this small word that seems so insignificant, so did Jesus enter into this world. He seemed so small, so helpless. A small infant that would grow into a man. Even as a man he humbled himself as a servant to men and loved them despite their evil hearts. If he would have just died, there would have been nothing to hope for. He would have been just another prophet. However, in His resurrection we have seen His glory manifested and his works exalted! Salvation has come and the King will return. What wonderful promises we have in Christ.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. While we mocked him, defiled him, and ridiculed him, He died for us. Even though we stagger in our belief and struggle in faith, he declares His purpose in us. Our hope is in Jesus, not in the miracle. Our hope is in Christ, not in any preacher. Our hope is in our King, and not here on earth. Our hope is in something far greater than riches here, far greater than health here, and far greater than any life here. Our hope is that we will be where He is and where he has personally prepared a place for us to be. Miraculously transformed, blameless and incorruptible, and righteous and sanctified will be the fruits of his work in us. We will truly live eternally, fulfilling his will that we be rich in His glory.
Webster’s Dictionary defines “hope” as, “to cherish a desire with anticipation, or to expect with confidence.” This word has come to be used in everyday life. We use it for many different reasons all falling under this definition. For the Christian, though, this word is a life giving word. Why? Because the desire of our hearts, what we fervently cherish, is far greater than anything on this earth.
What is your hope? Can you answer that today? Are your struggles in vain?
The world might hide in darkness but your hope is unable to be hidden. Your hope is the light of revelation. All that are near it are exposed and the truth is revealed. This is why we must cling to our hope. So that the lost will find their way. Our hope shall be revealed upon this earth in its due time and we to, like the definition, are waiting in patience and love for that blessed day. Jesus is returning! Tell all who will listen and as far as you can shout the King returns!
Like this small word that seems so insignificant, so did Jesus enter into this world. He seemed so small, so helpless. A small infant that would grow into a man. Even as a man he humbled himself as a servant to men and loved them despite their evil hearts. If he would have just died, there would have been nothing to hope for. He would have been just another prophet. However, in His resurrection we have seen His glory manifested and his works exalted! Salvation has come and the King will return. What wonderful promises we have in Christ.
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. While we mocked him, defiled him, and ridiculed him, He died for us. Even though we stagger in our belief and struggle in faith, he declares His purpose in us. Our hope is in Jesus, not in the miracle. Our hope is in Christ, not in any preacher. Our hope is in our King, and not here on earth. Our hope is in something far greater than riches here, far greater than health here, and far greater than any life here. Our hope is that we will be where He is and where he has personally prepared a place for us to be. Miraculously transformed, blameless and incorruptible, and righteous and sanctified will be the fruits of his work in us. We will truly live eternally, fulfilling his will that we be rich in His glory.
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