DAY TWENTY TWO: OUR BLESSED HOPE
12/22/24
What does it look like to hope in something? Of course, hope is something that happens inside us, but how do people tell what you hope for when looking at you on the outside? They see a sense of excitement, they see you make practical adjustments in your life in preparation of what you’re hoping for, they may see you share with others what’s causing such great hope in you. Hope takes place inside us, but it actively transforms us on the outside.
Jesus is our blessed hope, and people know He’s our blessed hope by looking at what takes place on the outside. They see the outward joy that we have in anticipation of His arrival. They see our lives being transformed in preparation for His arrival—renouncing ungodliness and worldly passions, living self-controlled, upright, and godly lives. They see us rejoice in Jesus, not just with our actions, but with our words as well.
In the season of Advent, we celebrate that Jesus came to earth once as a baby, and He will come to earth again, in glory, where the whole world will know Him as our great God and Savior! This is our hope, and our lives have been transformed as a result of this blessed hope.
- Dane