May 1, 2024 – Where Does Your HOPE Lie?

Where Does Your HOPE Lie?
May 1, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 11:5-8
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    Have you ever asked someone if they are saved or if they believe they are going to heaven after death, only to hear, “Well, I hope so?”

    Almost everyone hopes to end up in the place we call heaven. There are probably as many different ideas about heaven as there are people. Everyone envisions heaven with its golden streets and pearly gates a little differently from the next person. However, when it comes to hell, most people imagine some form of pain and torment. If you were to ask where someone wishes to spend eternity, you would rarely hear, “I think I would rather go to hell than heaven.” I have never officiated at any funerals where someone walked up and said, “I sure hope they are in hell when I get there.”

     Heaven is the hope of almost everyone. However, there is only one sure way to get there, and that is to put your faith in the blood of Jesus Christ and His righteousness. It’s to accept what He did as the complete payment for your sins. Yet, many unsaved people are hoping that someday they will be saved before they die, but they’re not ready to make today that day.

     Hoping to make it somehow is not good enough. In today’s verses, it says, “When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.” All their hoping will be over, and hell will become an eternal reality.

    Hope of eternal life was not created for the lost. Hope is given freely to those who are justified in Christ. When life is over here on earth, our hope for eternity will have just begun.

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    I am truly grateful that we don’t have to live a life of uncertainty when it comes to salvation. I know that Jesus genuinely died for my sins and forgave me when I accepted Him. He is my only HOPE.

What is your eternal hopes based upon?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: May 1, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    2 Kings 6 – 2 Kings 9
   Proverbs 11:5 – 8

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   1 Samuel 21-24
   Luke 20:27-47