Big Hope

Big Hope

Hebrews 13:14
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Yesterday we looked at how our hope is often too small. The Jews in Jesus’ day wanted a change in circumstances, but God came to change their hearts.

And we’re no different.
We often become enamored with achievement, comfort, careers, and relationships—believing they can finally satisfy us. We place our hope in a candidate, a title, a degree, or even a spouse to fill what is empty within us. But every hope placed anywhere other than Christ will ultimately fail.

Augustine said it beautifully: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.”

Today, remember the Big Hope that belongs to every believer in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

We place our hope in the truth that the One who once dwelled among us will one day reign forever.

There is a day coming:

• when the curse of the fall will no longer rest on us,

• when life will finally be as it should,

• where peace reigns,

• where God’s presence is unmistakable,

• where wars cease,

• where pain and suffering fade,

• when lions lie with lambs,

• when weapons become farming tools.

Do you think about that day?
Do you long for that day?

Or have you become so consumed with the pace, pressure, and promises of this life that you rarely consider there is something more—something better?

This is the “city that is to come.”
This is our Big Hope.