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Hope is central to the Christian faith. Biblical hope means something entirely different than in our culture. Our society uses hope like the last resort, dangling by a thread. Biblical hope is different. Biblical hope is not so much a maybe but an assurance. Biblical hope touches our expectations with assurance holding us with the assurance of faith as we hoping for all God will accomplish. Our reason for hope is based upon his past experience of faithfulness. What he has done, as miraculous as it all has been, is only a foretaste of all he will do. For example, when he created the world, he knew the world he created would need recreating.
When he recreates the glory of the new world will outshine the glory of the one that came before. When Jesus made the blind to see and the lame to walk he would one day cause blinded souls to see and raise the fallen. His calming the story Sea of Galilee was a prelude to the one day the turmoil of this world would cease at the mere sound of his voice. When Jesus rose from the grave, it was a foreshadowing of raising all who were asleep under sin’s curse of death. Some will be raised to everlasting life, others to everlasting death, but all will be raised.