HOPE
Christians should not be scared of COVID 19, Instead have hope.
What is so important about Christian hope?
If our future is not secured and satisfied by God then we are going to be highly anxious about our tomorrow. This create fear and tension in our hearts and we end up thinking about ourselves, our future, our problems and our potential, and that keeps us off from loving others.
In other words, hope is like an “essential service” to christians . It keeps giving us more energy to keep moving.That’s because we just let God take care of us and we be ready to surrender all to Him our almighty. We say, “Lord, I just want to be there for other people tomorrow, because you’re going to be there for me.”
If we don’t have the hope that Christ is for us then we will be engaged in self-preservation and self-enhancement. But if we let ourselves be taken care of by God for the future—whether five minutes or five centuries from now—then we can be free to love others. Then God’s glory will shine more clearly, because that’s how he becomes visible to our lives.
When God satisfies us so deeply that we’re free to love other people then he becomes more manifest. And that’s what we want above all.
How do we build our hope in God?
Hope is a portion or part of faith. Faith and hope, in my mind, are overlapping realities: hope is faith in the future tense. So most of faith is hope.
The Bible says, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). This implies that hope, like faith, is also strengthened by the word of God. Hope comes from reading his precious and very great promises and looking to Christ who purchased them.
I would sum it up like this: The most important verse in the Bible for me, probably, is Romans 8:32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Now that last part is hope producing! But it’s grounded in the rock-solid statement that “God didn’t spare his own son.”
So the essence of what we look to in the Bible to build our hope is, What has Christ done for me in my sinful condition that enables me to know that I will not come in to judgment and condemnation and that all things are working together for my good? And the answer is that Christ died for me, rose again for me, and therefore all the promises of God are yes in him.
So let’s look away from the circumstances that confront us, especially this period we are having a threat of this virus COVID 19, look to Christ, look to the promises, and hold fast to them. Hope comes from the promises of God rooted in the work of Christ.
