Is Hope Lost?

²⁶ Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.  ²⁷ My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  ²⁸ And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. – Ezekiel 37:26-28

Today, in the midst of society declaring that Christians are full of hate, intolerance, judgment, and anger for not accepting their moral authority and in the midst of other Christians who want to preach intentionally misconstrued words of God, it is refreshing to know that the Lord makes a covenant of peace with His own.  He has saved those who repent from their sins and cry out for salvation through the Son of the one true living God, Jesus, and in Him alone.  That salvation is for evermore.  It does not fail, ever.  He is our God and we are His people. 

We should never be a people whose hope is lost.  The Creator of all that is, the single authority over all that we could ever possibly know, the essence and presence of the fullness of love, peace, and joy, has promised to you and to me to never leave us and that He Himself will always be with us.  By what other power of authority should we hear or see that could possibly compare?  There is nothing else.  Every other person, place, or thing in all that we see, hear, taste, touch, or smell in this physical world or understand to know in our thoughts and feelings is a desert wasteland by comparison.  Life is only found in the Creator.

Anytime we do not know this, we must be careful to see that we are drifting away from the source of life.  He has not moved, but we have.  We must be very intentional to have faith in God and in all that He promises.  We must be intentionally looking for everything that tries to lure us away from His Word and His life-giving directions. 

We have a blessed hope and it is in our Redeemer.  Blessed be the name of the Lord.  His love will endure forever.