hope of the world

And his name will be the hope of all the world.

It is December, and the Christmas season is officially open and moving forward. It is Jesus whose birth was foretold. It is Jesus that the names have been talked about and shared. The verse above calls our Savior “the hope of all the world”. The key word there is HOPE. Jesus is our hope.

There are many different angles on the concept of Hope and the person of Hope. As you read the following verses chart in your mind who Jesus is as the Hope of the world.

Psalm 9:18 NLT

But the needy will not be ignored forever; the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed.

Psalm 33:20 NLT

We put our hope in the Lord. He is our help and our shield.

Lamentations 3:24 NLT

I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”

Romans 5:5 NLT

And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

Ephesians 1:18 NLT

I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 NLT

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope,

Hebrews 6:19 NLT

This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.

Hebrews 10:23 NLT

Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

The concept and the truth of HOPE is incredible. Literally truth is a person whose name is Jesus. By knowing hope, really knowing Jesus, our lives will be much stronger and much different.

As I shared these verses with our church this weekend in the first of our series “The Very Best” there is one verse that sticks out to me:

1 Timothy 5:5 NLT

Now a true widow, a woman who is truly alone in this world, has placed her hope in God. She prays night and day, asking God for his help.

Like that lady who sees no hope she begs God for help. It is time for us as followers of Jesus to beg God to give His hope to more and more people as we live with more hope than we’ve ever had before.

Jesus is our hope, the hope of the world!

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wash feet, sharing hope

John 13:4-5,14 NLT So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him… 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. Jesus set the example we follow. He served. He valued and gave value to others. That is why we choose to serve. For 18 years our church has shared an outreach called back2school, and for 16 of those years we have chosen to give students brand new shoes and socks as well as washing their feet. It is one of the most important parts of this event. Washing feet is a humbling experience where both the give and the receiver learn how to share some moments that might change their lives. Jesus said we should do this. See the verse above. Follow His example, do what He did, and give far more than you will ever know....

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