Having hope
What do we hope for? Hope in? We all need lots of hope these days more than ever. Sure, we are hoping for the end to this awful virus. Hoping for a vaccine. Hoping for life to get back to normal. But there is a greater hope we can possess. It never disappoints. It will be fulfilled for certain one day. And if we build our lives on it, we will have a solid foundation forever. I am talking about hoping in Christ. In my Bible reading this morning, I read in the book of Ephesians. If you ever need to be encouraged about who you are in Christ, please read and reread Ephesians. The richest of letters about our identity as believers in Christ. Anyway, in Ephesians 2:12, Paul reminds us of what life was like before we came to know Christ, and tells of what life is currently like for the unbeliever, the unsaved: "Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God