Prayer
– Lord, You are my hope and my salvation. Please continue to fill my heart and life with Your joy and peace—that I would be a blessing to others.
Now
when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold
them to it. And without any question that oath is binding. God also bound
himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly
sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and
his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to
lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as
we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy
anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God's inner
sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal
High Priest in the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:16-20
Anchor of Biblical times
Hope is our anchor
Strong and trustworthy
Meditate.
Consider hope.
Do you
hope for a good day—or do you choose to make it a good day?
In what do you put your hope? There
is a popular very old hymn that says:
My
hope is built on nothing less/than Jesus' blood and righteousness/I dare not trust the
sweetest frame/But wholly lean on Jesus’ name. (Refrain) On Christ, the solid
rock, I stand: all other ground is sinking sand/all other ground is sinking
sand.
My hope
is in Christ…and on Christ. The song goes on to tell about when there are storms,
my anchor keeps me in place and at the end of the age when the trumpet sounds,
I’m hoping to be found faultless before His throne. What a wonderful picture of
hope—seeing myself standing before Jesus’ throne in Heaven. King and Priest—that
is Jesus, my Savior. The author of Hebrews reminds us that Jesus is a priest in
the order of Melchizedek, appointed by God as a king-priest of Jerusalem, who
blessed Abraham, as recorded in Genesis 14.
God gives His followers—those who
believe in Jesus as their Savior—hope. We can trust God to keep the promises He
has given us. He does not lie. This passage talks about leading us into God’s
inner sanctuary—and that Jesus has gone there. It is a heavenly sanctuary. The
inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, was opened to us when Jesus was crucified,
and the curtain was shredded from top to bottom. That Temple in Jerusalem was
destroyed in 70 AD and has not been rebuilt. It was designed like the
Heavenly Temple where Jesus now sits at the right hand of God the Father. Both
of them are on their thrones. One day we will be with them…in the New Jerusalem.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new
earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was
also gone. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out
of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. I heard a loud
shout from the throne, saying, "Look, God's home is now among his people!
He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with
them." Revelation
21:1-3
The new
heaven, new earth, and new Jerusalem. The Hope of Heaven. That hope gives us joy—a
good day!
Verse
of Salvation ~ But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness
in you. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, "The LORD is
great!" Psalm
40:16
© 2024 Text, photos, and illustrations by Mickey M. Hunacek. All
rights reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless
otherwise noted.
New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale
House Foundation.
Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream,
Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Biblical search from Blue Letter Bible - http://v3.blueletterbible.org/search.cfm.
Books by Mickey M.
Hunacek
Available as e-books or paperbacks at Amazon.com
Parenting Day By Day - Daily Devotional for Building Character
Coins in the Bible: New Testament Stories
No comments:
Post a Comment