No Longer
Hopeless!
"And you He made alive, who
were dead in trespasses and
sins."
Ephesians 2: 1
Think of the most hopeless situation you can imagine,
being stranded, alone, in the middle of Antarctica, the
most foreboding continent on earth.
Antarctica is approximately 5.5 million square miles of ice,
snow,
and sub-zero temperatures. It is an island continent, surrounded
by gale-whipped oceans on all sides. What if, by some horrible
circumstance, you were stranded there alone? Wouldn’t you call
that hopeless?
It wouldn't be as hopeless as the situation of someone living
apart from God. At least in Antarctica you would be alive. Apart
from God, Paul says, you are “dead in
trespasses and sins...
Having no hope and without God in the world”
(Ephesians 2:1, 12).
Sounds as being stranded in Antarctica, but worse. Being apart
from God not only means no hope in this world but in the next,
eternal world as well. Thankfully, we are not without hope: “But
God, who is rich in mercy...made us alive together with Christ
(by grace you have been saved)” (Ephesians 2:4-5).
Don’t be lost, without hope in this world
or the next. Accept God’s gift of
mercy
and grace and new life in Christ.
"My hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus’ blood and
righteousness."
Edward Mote