At the end of the year, a lot of people talk about making a new start. I have made a few of those myself, and most of them did not last past February. John saw the real new start, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
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Psalm 146 opens with a resolution, “While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.” As long as there is breath, there will be praise. I want that to be true of me. Then the psalmist turns to a warning, “Put not your trust
Micah lived in dark days, but God showed him what was coming. “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.” People
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This psalm starts at the bottom. “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.” The writer does not tell us what the depths were, but anyone who has been there knows. I have been there. Then he asks a question that should sober every one of us. “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark
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God took Ezekiel to a valley “full of bones,” and the prophet noticed two things about them. “There were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.” Not just dead. Very dry. Whatever hope there had been was long gone. Then God asked him a question. “Son of man, can these
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A ship in a storm does not survive by being strong. It survives by being held. The writer of Hebrews knew that, and so he describes our hope this way: “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.” An anchor does not do its work on the deck of
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Peter begins his letter by praising God for what He has given us. According to “his abundant mercy” He “hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” A lively hope. Not a wishful one. It is alive because Jesus is alive. Then Peter describes what that
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Lamentations is a book of tears. Jeremiah walked through the ruins of Jerusalem and wrote down what he saw. In chapter three he speaks of “mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.” Then, right in the middle of the book, he says, “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”
When I think about the grace of God, I usually think first about what it saved me from. Paul wants Titus to see what it does after that. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us.” Grace is not only a gift; it is a teacher. The same
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Paul opens his letter to Titus with a long first sentence, and tucked inside it is one of the most comforting phrases in the Bible: “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.” We live in a world full of broken promises. Companies promise more than they deliver.
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