The Hope of Eternal Light!

Job 10

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, January 19.

Our ability to persevere through difficult situations is often dictated by one primary factor – hope! When you take away someone’s hope, despair quickly takes root. Job was consumed with the futility of his suffering and all he could see in his future was the darkness of eternal separation from God. He expressed his vision of death in Job 10:21-22, “the land of darkness and deep shadow, the land of utter gloom as darkness itself, of deep shadow without order, and which shines as the darkness.” To Job, death was eternal darkness.

Praise God for the hope of eternal light given to us through our salvation in Jesus Christ – “this hope we have as an anchor to my soul” (Hebrews 6:19). Jesus came to defeat the darkness of death and despair and give us life and hope through His eternal light – “The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:5; cf. 3:19-20). This same vision of eternal light is given to us for Heaven, as described in Revelation 21:23, “And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.”

People cannot survive long apart from hope and that is why God has given us such a clear view of the hope we have in Jesus Christ. Hope keeps us going during the painful times of our lives; it pierces the darkness of living in a fallen world. Apart from Christ, we have no hope (Ephesians 2:12), but in Christ we have the living hope of the resurrection (1 Peter 1:3).

Seize the moment and put your faith in Jesus, who promised in John 8:12 “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

God bless you!

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