A Solid Hope

Often we look into the future for things to comfort us. A new job, a new boyfriend/girlfriend, a new season, a new semester, new friends the list goes on and on for quite some time. But there is more comfort to be had in the things that have already happened, the things in the past.

(This has become my routine looking ahead for comfort rather than looking at what has already been given.)

There is a roof over your head. You’ve eating today. You’re breathing now. And, assuming your reading this post you’re on some sort of technology that 30 years ago was unimagined. Thousands of different, seemingly little things could be listed out to show you that you have a myriad of things to be thankful for.

But these are not the things that should inspire our thankfulness.

There is one event that happened in the past that resounds today; one thing that will forever define who you are; one thing that will break you into continually thankfulness, namely the cross of Jesus Christ. This should draw our attention like the sun. It is the center of all of God’s plan, it is the way you were/are redeemed, it is the power of God for salvation.

Thus it is this good news that makes the present you able to hope in the future. Yet we must not become obsessed with the future but rather we must become obsessed with the cross. That Jesus is the One who gives us our only solid hope.