How Long Will We Hope?
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma
From Genesis to Luke from Luke to Revelation
In our society, because of our propensity for instant gratification, it’s hard for us to understand hope taking a long time before its fruition.
In Genesis 3, God promises there will be a Redeemer to come that will crush Satan’s head. From that point on, people shared with their children the fact that at some point there would be a Redeemer. Later in Genesis, God spoke to Abraham describing the Jews as His chosen people. Fast forward to the book of Exodus a couple 1,000 years, and the people of Israel were redeemed from Egypt, but did not see the Redeemer.
And then, fast forward again to the book of Luke. Several millennia had come and gone by the time that Gabriel visited Mary and said she would be the mother of the very Son of God, the promised Redeemer!
Finally, the Redeemer would have a face, a name, a body, and a voice like ours!
Since His birth, death, and resurrection, we wait 2,000 plus years later, for the second coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. We hope for these things.
I have a special hope of heaven now in 2021. I know that to be absent from the body is to be face-to-face with Jesus; that in this place called heaven there is no more death, no more tears, no more sorrow, and no more goodbyes. I have beloved family members that have gone before me, especially my three children, two that I have never seen. The fulfillment of my hope in Jesus’s promise of eternal life will place me with them forever. But, my grandest hope is to be with my blessed Savior, Jesus Christ, and my heavenly Father, ABBA.
There’s an old hymn that says “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteous. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but holy lean on Jesus name.”
Let us remember these things as we look ahead to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Prayer:
Dear Lord and Father, thank You for the hope we have in You. Some promises we know from history have been fulfilled, some things we hope for that have not happened yet. Keep us hopeful and believing that You cannot lie, that Your Word is true. We can depend on it!
In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen!
Meet the Author
Timi Plyter
“LU Grandma”
Lead Parent Advocate
