Hope, It's Ours to Claim

I have had so many things on my mind eager to write about, all that as strange as it may seem have been backed up by passages of the Bible that I happened to flip to, have on Youversion, etc. . Overcoming temptation, preparing forministry, reflecting on this fast...

But today I cannot get out of my mind the immense HOPE that I have today and how amazingly different it is for us than it was for the original followers of Jesus. For them Saturday was painful, hurtful, they were fearful. But not us, we get the privilege of turning a few pages ahead and reading about the triumphant resurrection. Jesus, Son of God, lives. This feeling of hope, it's
real, it is welling up in my chest and I so desperately want the same for those I love and even those I don't know. It is for everyone.

The final chapters and verses of John represent to me a break in the path. The road that we may have been traveling on as we kind of check out this "Christianity thing" force us to make a decision right now, yes? Up until now we've learned about an amazing man who claimed to be the Son of God and this man did some really miraculous things, he healed the blind, he made
paralyzed men walk, he told people their sins were forgiven. And he died a murderer's death.

But now - now we claim that he lives, because the Bible tells us so. Because the eyewitness accounts of so many have been recorded as seeing him appear behind locked doors (twice in John - John 20:19, John 20:26), he helped his disciples catch fish and then cooked them breakfast, he walked with them and broke bread with them, at times he appeared to crowds of over 500 (I Cor 15:6). John ends his book (21:25) with this claim, "Jesus also did many other
things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written."

"Impossible!" you say. Yes, precisely the point. Impossible, if you are not God. Impossible if you are not The Messiah. So, are we crazy? Or have we caught on to the most glorious truth there is? Is He Lord? Or a Liar?

For me, He's my King. Simple as that. Will He be yours?

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- Tiffany Adams