Know The Hope
There is reason for hope in Jesus who gave His life for us, yet it is so easy to lose hope in this world. Satan has created a world system that is designed to rob us of all hope.
Paul was concerned that the people who lived in Ephesus would know and understand the hope they had. He prayed for them “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give [them] a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of [their] hearts enlightened, that [they] may know what is the hope to which he has called [them]” (Eph. 1:17-18). We all need to allow God to open our eyes to the hope we have in Jesus because Satan works constantly to darken “the eyes of our hearts” so that we might lose sight of the hope God has called us to.
This hope can only be known when we trust Jesus with our lives. He is the only source of hope for all of us sinners. Everyone who has not trusted Jesus’ death on the cross as payment their sin is “separated from Christ, … having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” (Eph 2:12, 13) Today is the day to trust the blood of Christ to pay for our sin and find hope in Him.
