What is your reaction to Jesus? Everybody has one upon learning of His Name and the many claims of His reality and power.
In this season, with food all around us, have you turned to God through Jesus Christ for the only food that truly satisfies?
We don’t want to wait. We think waiting is a bad thing, an enemy to be eliminated. If I had a choice, I would never choose to wait. We have no time to waste.
“Hope” is a word often thrown around—from political campaigns to advertisements promising to satisfy the deepest longings of our souls. Every person longs for hope. It’s what drives us to face each new day. Without hope, we are lost.
There is a parable that Jesus told in the Bible about two sons (Luke 15:11-32). One day, the younger son came to his father and asked for his inheritance early so that he could go off and live life doing whatever he pleased. Even though this was an incredibly inappropriate request to ask for an inheritance before the father’s passing, the man granted his son’s request. The son then headed off to a faraway land and squandered the inheritance in reckless living. With nothing left and no one to turn to, the son came to his senses and decided to go back to his father and ask to be considered as one of his servants. With his head hung low, he headed back to his father’s house in humility, heavily burdened by the choices of his past, and as he approached, received a surprising welcome home. His father, seeing him in the distance, ran to him, embraced him, welcomed him, clothed him in fine robes, placed the family ring on his finger and threw him a feast to celebrate.
