As many of you may know, the Lord has many names. One of them is found at Jeremiah 17:7 which tells us :"Blessed is the man that trusted in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is."
In a round about way you could say, from the above verse that God (Jesus) is our hope. I mean, He is our hope most definitely, but Jeremiah 17:7 doesn't say it directly, just that our hope in the Lord will give us blessings.
"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." - Romans 15:13
For believers in Jesus Christ as the Savior, our ultimate hope is to be with Him in heaven.
Titus 2:13 says " Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ."
Speaking of when Jesus returns soon for the Rapture of His true believers, 1 Thessalonians 4:17 tells us : "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." What a wonderful and glorious hope!
Following is a moving song about the anchor of hope:
Hebrews 6:19 tells us: "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast and which entereth into that within the veil."
Hope is an anchor; Jesus is hope and is also an anchor.
Following is a partial quote from Adam Clarke's Commentary on Hebrews 6:19 :
"The hope of eternal life is here represented as the soul's anchor; the world is the boisterous, dangerous sea; the Christian course , the Voyage; the port is everlasting felicity; and the veil or inner road, the royal dock in which that anchor was cast...... the soul may be strongly tossed ....but the anchor is in sure ground, and itself is steadfast; it does not drag, and it does not break; faith, like the cable,.... is the connecting medium between the ship and the anchor, or the soul and its hope of heaven; faith sees the haven, hope desires and anticipates the rest; faith, works, and hope holds fast; and shortly the soul enters into the haven of eternal repose."
A wonderful explanation of the part of Hebrews 6:19 that tells us : "And which entereth into that within the veil" follows by Albert Barnes' Notes :
"The illusion to the "anchor" here is dropped, and the apostle speaks simply of hope. The "veil" here refers to what in the temple divided the holy from the most holy place. The place "within the veil" - the most holy place- was regarded as God's Special Abode - where He dwelt by the visible symbol of His presence. That Holy place was emblematic of heaven; and the idea here is that the hope of the Christian enters into heaven itself; it takes hold on the throne of God; it is made firm by being fastened there. It is not the hope of future riches etc., for such a hope would not keep the soul steady; it is the hope of immortal blessedness and purity in the world beyond."
For some believers, they may not feel for sure that they are truly saved; sometimes the devil makes us doubt our salvation. I would like to give a link here to an article written by me last year. It has a brief sermon by Pastor Adrian Rogers about not being a doubting Christian. The sermon is titled: "How to be saved and know it." Other information with Scriptures is also on that post. Here is the link :
https://inspiringnaturephotography.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-to-know-if-you-are-truly-saved-with.html
Have you put your trust and faith in Jesus? Have you believed that He is the Savior and the only way to heaven and eternal life? If not, there is no hope for you except eternal separation from God and Jesus. For all who do not accept Jesus as their Savior will spend eternity in hell. A bad choice !!
Salvation is simple. First you must realize that you are a sinner and in need of a Savior.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." - Romans 3:23
Romans 6:23 tells us "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
A person needs to repent and pray for forgiveness. He needs to realize that Jesus died in our place on the cross to pay our sin debt in full; that His shed blood washes us clean if we believe in His redemptive work at Calvary and have faith and belief that He is the Savior. This is not intellectual knowledge of Jesus; it is a knowing with all of your very being that He is the Savior and that He is our only hope of eternal life.
Romans 10:9,10,13 tells us (9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me." - John 14:6
"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that beleiveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" - John 11:25-26
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
Have a blessed and Christ centered weekend -- and life !!
