Hope For The World

Read: Isaiah 2:1-5

... looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. --- Titus 2:13

The Bible In One Year:
Isaiah 1-3

PEACE TALKS FALL APART AGAIN. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES. TORNADO RIPS THROUGH TOWN.

These newspaper headlines selected at random tend to lead us to despair. There just doesn't seem to be any hope for this world. And yet, according to the Scriptures, the dream of abolishing was is not merely wishful thinking. The idea of prosperity for all is more than a political gimmick. The Bible tells us that the eventual taming of nature is a certainty.

The hope for this world, however, is not to be found in human efforts but in the return of Jesus Christ. He alone can solve the problems that are baffling mankind.

The prophet Isaiah said that someday "nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore" [Isaiah 2:4]. This glorious prospect will become a reality when the Lord Jesus Himself returns as "King of kings and Lord of lords" [1 Timothy 6:15] to set up His kingdom of peace and rigtheousness. We are to be "looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ" [Titus 2:13]. Because we have this hope, we can be optimistic even in the deepening gloom of this age.

Keep looking up! --- Richard De Haan

Lift up your heads, pilgrims aweary,
See day's approach now crimson the sky;
Night shadow flee, and your Beloved,
Awaited with longing, at last draweth nigh. --- Camp

THE ONLY HOPE FOR WORLD PEACE IS THE COMING OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE.