Our Only Hope

We struggle and fret; we worry ourselves into early graves. What do you tell yourselves when you lie down at night? Does your head keep spinning with everything going on in the world? Is it hard to sleep because of all that is happening? Does it seem like you have no control, even over your own life? Is there anything you can do about it? The simple answer is no, there is nothing you can do that will make it all go away. There is only one hope, and that answer is not within yourself. 

    What is the mysterious answer to this conundrum? The answer was answered in scripture, many years ago – Colossians 1:26-27:

    “Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”

    The answer is right there in front of you: if you are one of his saints. The answer is: Christ is now in you, so call on him. Call on him just as you as a child would call on your mother or father when you were scared or worried about things. You have to have faith as a child, you have to come to him as a child would. You came to him as a child when you received salvation, and that faith has to continue; that faith as a child should continue to grow. We grow physically as a person, and we have to continue to grow spiritually. That happens by maintaining your childlike faith.

    I remember as a child, for some reason I started dreaming about snakes. I never did figure out why that started, but I woke up several nights in a sweat from the snake dream. I was in a pit with snakes and they were crawling all over me. A couple nights into this, my dad came to me and prayed with me and told me to pray with him then and to pray to the Lord before I went to sleep for this dream to go away. I never dreamed that dream again. Faith as a child is what it takes. Childlike faith is what keeps it going,

“And he (Christ) said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:3

    What good does it do to worry? My wife sometimes accuses me of not taking things seriously enough. I can’t seem to take things very seriously, at least, not things that are going on this side of eternity. The things that truly matter are not these temporal things. 

I take that back, at least a little. I do get frustrated sometimes, maybe a good word would be heartsick, about the billions of people who will spend eternity in a place that was only meant for Satan and his minions. Hell is real, and it would be good if missions could take hold of lives like it did in the days after Christ ascended back to Heaven. If you could, take some time out of your day to pray for the souls that should, and could, to hear God’s plan for eternity that was meant for all, but too few have accepted that reality.

    “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

– Romans 3:23-24

~AE