A Reminder of Our Hope!




Perhaps today you are feeling the blues. A heavy heart, a sense of foreboding. Are you feeling spiritually dry? The press of loneliness, desperation, fear, job uncertainty, or one of a million other things we endure in this life?

Maybe you’re facing an unwelcome diagnosis, and a gloomy prognosis. I feel compelled to remind you to remember that while outwardly we feel our mortality, inside there is an ongoing change, a metamorphosis! It's one of those divine paradoxes that Christians must embrace with the accumulation of years. 

 The body that houses our soul, breaks down. However the soul (The Real You) that is a temporary resident in the body, is being renewed!

You see, something from the moment of your initial encounter with The Lord Jesus Christ, has been going on within you. You are being directed, He is, navigating your steps, in such a way, that change is in process! I liked the way Dr. Joel Gregory put it:

*You can measure the authenticity and depth of your spiritual life by this statement: ”Do visible or invisible things dominate your life? Faith, love, prayer and fellowship with the Risen Christ, are all invisible things. Yet these invisible resources, presently give you inner renewal, and will ultimately give you future glory! - *Joel Gregory.

Weary friend, why not pillow your soul on the following incredible reminder...

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.  For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. (2nd Corinthians 4:16-18).  
One of my favorite songs based on Psalm 32 is "You Are My Hiding Place" a great song to reminds believers in Christ, just who we are, who we belong to, and were we are headed!


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