What
does it mean to be born again to a living hope?
What is
a living hope?
A hope that isn’t confined to death and discouragement.
A hope
that is not victim to evil usurpation.
Immovable and defined by the only one who has the power to define a
promise like that. God. If God grants that hope is living, He has to be able to
cash that in when we despair. We have to sit back and trust that when he says
“Living Hope,” he means it and will do whatever is needed to assure that his
hope does not fade.
Our inheritance is also alive.
Alive in the sense that there
will be no corruption or perishing when we obtain it in heaven. However heaven
looks, we can be assured that God will command all things to life.
Death will
have no inroad.
Despair will not be considered.
Defilement will find no place.
Life will rule the day.
Life will define all our relationships.
Life will be
defined by goodness.
Words spoken will be put together with letters of hope and
joy. Pauses in our days will be filled with a silent worship, not devising
schemes of revenge. Anger will be held at bay. Racisim will never occur to the
minds of a people who are surrendered to a living hope. These bouts of
corruption are out of place in a kingdom that God creates. A infalliable place
where both joy and worship work symmetrically together to give us a peaceful
place to exist for all of eternity. If nothing else, this should give us hope.
It should make us stop when we are anxious about work and find gladness in our
future grace. This type of promise should allow us to breathe deeply when we
find ourselves broken and depleted of all goodness.
Life here doesn’t make sense. On many levels. We end our day
with more questions than answers. With feeling more discouraged than alive.
But there will come a day. A day that we will be able to
express a joy in God that we can’t seem to grasp here on this earth and for
this time.
But there will come a day. A day when no orphan will wander around
looking for arms to curl up into.
But there will come a day. A day when we can look around at
our brothers and sisters around the world and not reject others on account of
cultural differences, but rejoice in the creative design of our Father.
It's in these things that we can get up each morning and proclaim that God is good. Not because of our desire to escape this world, but because we understand that hope is obtainable. Goodness is an option.
God has prepared a place.
**It is this very hope that will bring us to pray for not only the victim's families, but the bombers' families too. Hope is not reserved for those whom WE deem fit. That's the Lord's job.
