The world around us is filled with systems and beliefs that promise us something: financial stability, the perfect marriage, success, popularity, good health, or a happy life. But what happens when those promises turn out to be empty? What happens when our health fails, when the money is gone, or when our marriage hits a rough patch? Where do we turn? What is there that supersedes it all and can offer peace, even in life’s storms?
Have you viewed pictures from the Hubble Telescope, like the Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth or the Ring Nebula, that light up the darkness with bursts of magnificent color? Have you pondered the quantity of stars—too numerous to count? Have you paused to wonder what it’s all for? What are we to learn or understand from it? Is there purpose in it all? Is there something, or someone, out there?
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.
