The best place for finding hope is anywhere you talk to and listen to Jesus. Don’t settle for just knowing information about Him. Talk to Him now. Doctrine without discipleship makes Christians spiritually docile.
Jesus isn’t seasonal like Christmas or regional like Christian nationalism. He’s always everywhere but people are usually unaware. He can be encountered anywhere.
It’s good to look back to Christ’s first coming and forward to His promised return. However, we Christians too often forget to look around us, look within us, and look within each other at the presence of the risen Jesus here and now in this very moment. Here and now is the best place to meet Him.
Several years after Jesus rose from the dead and ascended the writer of Hebrews told Christ-followers to be “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of your faith.” We are still invited to “Behold the Lamb of God.”
When Lazarus died and Jesus came to raise him, Mary and Martha, looked back to the past and said, “Lord, if You had been here,” he wouldn’t have died. Then they looked to the future and acknowledeged that their brother would rise on resurrection day. But they missed the point of Jesus coming to see them. Christ came to do a mighty miracle at that moment.
So it is with you and me. Constantly rely on the presence of Jesus and let Him do mighty miracles within you, around you, and through you now! Be led moment by moment by His Spirit.
To hunger and thirst for righteousness is to inwardly yearn and deeply groan for more heart-to-heart connection with Jesus and greater awareness of His reality and of His presence.
Listen to, surrender to, and obey God the Holy Spirit. Let Him create within you an intense ongoing longing for more and more of “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” not just when you die but every moment you’re alive!
Be Spirit-led
With Jesus as your Head.
Be Spirit-fed
Not spiritually dead.
Have you not read
Where Jesus said,
You can’t live on just bread?
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