“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3
Think about Jesus’ hope and think about exactly what it means. Jesus hoped that He would be able to be offered on the Cross, so that we might be saved and have eternal life. His hope was that we might have life and that we might have it abundantly. Jesus hoped that by His stripes we would be healed. God had not done any of these things through man before Jesus went to the Cross, He had only spoken of them, and Jesus had hope that they would be. He had the hope that God would strengthen Him so that He could accomplish all that He was to accomplish, and this hope that Jesus had, came only from hearing God’s Word about it! “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 This is what and Who we are born of; this is now our hope. The same force within Jesus, the force of hope that allowed Him to come as a man and die on the Cross, is the force of hope that God has given to us. Jesus was able to hope and thus He was able to walk in faith, and faith produced the miraculous works that God did through Him to serve others, and faith allowed Jesus to endure the Cross, which served us all! This same lively hope has been born into you and I! Now stop and actually allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you and strengthen you in the power of this Truth!
When people think of Jesus, they tend to put His hope, His faith, His attitude, and His works in an unattainable category, as if Jesus was the only one that could ever do them. We do this because Jesus is our Lord and Savior, He is our Head, and we believe that by doing so is a way to worship Him. But that’s not what Jesus came to do. Jesus didn’t come to show us that He was superior to us, even though He is! He came to show us and to empower us to live as God desires for us to live, just as He lives. Jesus came to show us that we could have hope as He has hope, that we could have faith, as He has faith, and that God could do His works through us, just as God does through Him. Jesus came to tell us that God could even do greater works through us because He has gone to the Father. That is why God had it written that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, that He is the one that gives us hope, and that He is the One performing the works through us. Jesus is Sovereign, He is our Lord, and our sovereign Lord gave us all that He has, so that we could live as He lives. Jesus is hope, and He is faith, and He is love, and He is power, and we are now and forevermore one with Him. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Jesus is a being of hope, and as He is, so are we in this world! We truly worship Him and we truly please God by allowing God to live within us, as He lives within Jesus! We can’t help but be filled with hope; it’s how God has made us!
Think about Jesus’ hope and think about exactly what it means. Jesus hoped that He would be able to be offered on the Cross, so that we might be saved and have eternal life. His hope was that we might have life and that we might have it abundantly. Jesus hoped that by His stripes we would be healed. God had not done any of these things through man before Jesus went to the Cross, He had only spoken of them, and Jesus had hope that they would be. He had the hope that God would strengthen Him so that He could accomplish all that He was to accomplish, and this hope that Jesus had, came only from hearing God’s Word about it! “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 This is what and Who we are born of; this is now our hope. The same force within Jesus, the force of hope that allowed Him to come as a man and die on the Cross, is the force of hope that God has given to us. Jesus was able to hope and thus He was able to walk in faith, and faith produced the miraculous works that God did through Him to serve others, and faith allowed Jesus to endure the Cross, which served us all! This same lively hope has been born into you and I! Now stop and actually allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you and strengthen you in the power of this Truth!
When people think of Jesus, they tend to put His hope, His faith, His attitude, and His works in an unattainable category, as if Jesus was the only one that could ever do them. We do this because Jesus is our Lord and Savior, He is our Head, and we believe that by doing so is a way to worship Him. But that’s not what Jesus came to do. Jesus didn’t come to show us that He was superior to us, even though He is! He came to show us and to empower us to live as God desires for us to live, just as He lives. Jesus came to show us that we could have hope as He has hope, that we could have faith, as He has faith, and that God could do His works through us, just as God does through Him. Jesus came to tell us that God could even do greater works through us because He has gone to the Father. That is why God had it written that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, that He is the one that gives us hope, and that He is the One performing the works through us. Jesus is Sovereign, He is our Lord, and our sovereign Lord gave us all that He has, so that we could live as He lives. Jesus is hope, and He is faith, and He is love, and He is power, and we are now and forevermore one with Him. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Jesus is a being of hope, and as He is, so are we in this world! We truly worship Him and we truly please God by allowing God to live within us, as He lives within Jesus! We can’t help but be filled with hope; it’s how God has made us!
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