When car shopping, there are lots of cars out there. The choices are endless.
Blue or red? Convertible or fixed top? Manual or automatic? Cloth or leather?
The features we choose determine the experience we have.
We can apply elements of that concept to our hope in the Lord.
Let’s look at Titus 1:1-2 (ESV) for our reading:
“Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began.”
Here are 2 Features of Hope from the Book of Titus as revealed in this passage:
Our First Feature of Hope:
A servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. We learn that the hope of God isn’t for everyone. We can’t claim it just because it “feels good” to do so. Divine hope is for the believer, the person who both serves God and is an apostle of Jesus.
To serve God means to follow his directions for living as presented in the Word.
An apostle of Jesus is someone who endeavors to model their life after the example Jesus set in the Bible.
Our Second Feature of Hope:
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began. Whoop! Whoop! Let’s throw up our hands now and begin to worship God! Read and reread what that says. Eternal life. That’s what the God who never lies has promised us.
This is not a new promise, either. God offered this to us before the ages began. He knew who we were before the world coalesced into a planet and before Adam walked upon the land.
He is the God of then and now and ever after. His promises are trustworthy and true!
So, how about that passage of hope from the Book of Titus? Pretty sweet, huh?
Let’s get started off on the right foot with God. Blue or red? Convertible or fixed top? Manual or automatic? Cloth or leather?
Salvation first.
Eternal life ever after!
Amen to hope renewed!
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