NKJV 365 / Where Our Hope Lies

NKJV 365 Day Reading Plan

Day 5 of 365 Where Our Hope Lies I came across a fascinating list of questions lately that all have the same answer. Can you guess what it is? * What gives a widow courage as she stands beside a fresh grave? * What is the ultimate hope of the cripple, the amputee, the abused or the burn victim? * How can parents of a brain-damaged or physically handicapped child keep from living their lives totally and completely depressed? * Where do the thoughts of a young couple go when they finally recover from the terrible grief of losing their baby? * When a family receives the tragic news that a dad was killed in a plane crash or a son overdosed on drugs, what single truth becomes its whole focus? * What is the final answer to pain, mourning, senility, insanity, terminal diseases, sudden calamities, and fatal accidents? The answer to each of these questions is: the hope God gives us because of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. The pivotal point in all of human history is the resurrection of Christ. The one thing that separates Christianity from other religions is that God conquered death. Since Jesus Christ has defeated death, He can offer eternal life to all who believe in Him! He is risen! Yes, Christ is risen indeed! Taken from FamilyLife Marriage Bible Luke 24:6-12 Luke 24:6-12 NASB 6 He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again." 8 And they remembered His words, 9 and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles. 11 But these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they would not believe them. 12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.