LIVE IN JOYFUL HOPE

Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind…

‭‭Romans‬ ‭12:2‬ ‭GNT‬‬

The Lord told the temple guards whom the Jewish authorities sent to arrest Him, “ “I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I shall go away to him who sent me. You will look for me, but you will not find me, because you cannot go where I will be.” (‭‭John‬ ‭7:33‭-‬34‬ ‭GNT‬‬) Ponder this: “ you cannot go where I will be. “

But to His apostles He said, “There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so. And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.”

(‭‭John‬ ‭14:2‭-‬3‬ ‭GNT‬‬) Ponder this also: “I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.”

So to the authority He said,you cannot go where I will be. “ but to the apostles He said,I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.”

Imagine such love, such favor God has bestowed upon us in Christ!

Beloved, we did not do anything right to deserve such privilege, it is only by God's grace. Let us not take His grace for granted. The world we are sent to is decaying in sin, but as children of hope, let us not conform to their standards as our theme verse tells us, rather let God transform us by renewing our minds with His words. Let us also remember the Lord in Holy Communion until He comes again to take us to Himself, “so that you will be where I am.”

WE PRAY FOR THE GRACE TO LIVE IN JOYFUL HOPE OF THE COMING OF THE LORD TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER IN JESUS NAME AMEN!

THANK YOU JESUS!