Hope in God…

The 2023 holiday season is here and moving fast. I love this time of the year, I have so many wonderful memories as a child and as an adult. The best one is always about my dad stopping us and asking us as a family, “what is God doing in your life?” His words and his life always revolves around hope in God, and how God would always care for us. His words, always moved me to hope.

A lot of people are gathering with friends and family, they are shopping for Christmas, planning parties, and happy to have a little break time from work. Then there are others, they are away from their family, or even estranged from them, lonely, struggling with addictions and life, broken and feeling hopeless. These are not people you don’t know, these are friends, neighbors, a co-worker, or maybe even a family member.

Where will they find hope? Where will they find true peace? They will search, you and I have searched and our searching has always come up empty. We think that this life and the things around us will bring joy and fulfillment, and they never have, only a temporary pause. The gifts we receive at Christmas are fun and exciting for a moment but they never last.

The only lasting joy and true happiness come in Christ, the Son of God who gave his life on the cross to free us from this life of emptiness and brokenness. Our hope comes in Christ who was resurrected, who came out of the grave, who defeated death that we might have life, not temporary but eternal, life-everlasting. This is hope, he is our hope, he is the hope we all need. He is the hope my dad wanted for us.

The holiday season is here, and I am thankful for my hope, but I can’t just hold on to my hope, I have to give it away, show it, live it, tell others about it. If you have Christ, you have what others need in this season and in their life…hope in God.

Let me ask you a question…what is God doing in your life? He bring hope to us.

Hope in God…