A Reason for Hope

Rebecca Manley Pippert wrote a book, Hope Has Its Reasons. In our New Testament, unlike the world we live in, hope is not just wistful wish that everything will turn out for the best. It is an expectation. It has its roots in the Bible story of Jesus who came to share God's love. When the people, many of those in power, didn't want to listen, they killed Jesus. The folk who had come to love Him and His message felt defeated, past discouraged. Three after his death, though, these same defeated people were proclaiming to all who would hear, "He is not dead! The God who has sent him has raised him from the dead!" From that point on, nothing, no personal tragedy, no task, no challenge, no relational problem, has been insurmountable for people who have the coming of Jesus. A very happy and hopeful Easter!