4-5-2024
Living Without Hope
Living a life without God is living without hope for God IS the basis of our hope. Man hopes God doesn’t send him to hell when he dies, but unless you have placed your faith and trust in God how do you know? We turn to religion when times are bad, or when we’re down on our luck or we’re stuck in a rut and don’t know which way to go.
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
I encourage you to read James 1 in its entirety to fully understand the context and to whom it was written.
We were created by God with the freedom to worship Him, to love others and to take care of all that God has created but until we come to know God in a personal way, we become absorbed into this sinful world and never learn or simply forget why we were created – to tell others that God loves them, now, today, just as they are.
Matthew 22: 34 And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: 36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”
37 Jesus declared, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’e 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’f 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
There is nothing you can ever do to make God love you any less or love you any more than when He created you.
When life seems empty, meaningless and all hope is gone – turn to God.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
God alone will give meaning to your very existence. – RTM
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