Day 2

Our Lord has us focused on “hope” this week. We can some- times face circumstances that cause us to think of “hope” as unattainable because of how we use the word in our English language. For instance, we’ll say, “I hope the weather is nice this weekend.” Or we’ll say, “I hope my team wins today.” When we use the word hope in either of these ...

As Christians, it is awesome to know that God rescues us, through our Lord Jesus Christ, from the depths of our guilt and shame of sin (Colossians 1:13–14). The only confidence in our cleansing and healing is found in our relationship with Christ (Colossians 2:13–14). Because of our faith in Christ’s death, burial, and resur- rection, we can ...

God clearly tells us through His Word that our hope must be in Him. In Psalm 42, our Lord led the writer to speak of hope as the Israelites faced trouble and had been exiled from their land. The Lord had the Psalmist write in Psalm 42:5, Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall a...

We live each day with some sort of expectation of what our day might bring. We might expect to do well in any one of a number of things, such as in school, in our job, in sports, in music, in a relationship, in eating right, in taking care of ourselves, etc.... But, in Psalm 130:5, the Psalmist says that he was living each day waiting on our ...

Our hopes and longings are quite the same. But, as we read Psalm 130:6, we see how the Psalmist uses military personnel as an example of longing for our Lord. In Psalm 130:6, the Psalmist wrote, “My soul waits for the Lord more than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.” In light of what God had the Psa...

Our focus this week has been where we place our hope and re- alizing that our hope must always be in our Lord and His Word. These last two days, we’ll focus on Jeremiah 31:31–34 as our pastors preach from this passage this week. As God spoke to Jeremiah, He told him in Jeremiah 31:31–32, “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I w...

God, as He spoke to Jeremiah, unfolded the new covenant He would make in Jeremiah 31:33–34, “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach agai...