Christ In You, The Hope Of Glory

I want to leave you with a real pearl of a scripture verse today:

Colossians, Chapter 1 and verse 27:

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

It is not you, it is not me, it is Christ in us that will give us hope today.

I know that many of us today are starting to get very tired because this lockdown doesn’t seem to want to end.

But I have good news for you.

If Christ is in you, you will make it.

You don’t have to be afraid.

Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic monk.

He was trying to find God.

He was trying to get closer to The Lord Jesus Christ.

He would punish himself.

He would go without food.

He would beat himself up physically.

He would wear a horse-hair shirt. Can you think of anything more aggravating?

And then he found a little scripture - Romans, Chapter 1 and verse 17:

“And the just (the righteous) shall live by faith.”

Faith in who?

Faith in Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2: 8 says that we have been saved by grace through faith and that not of ourselves, for it was a gift from God. Jesus in us!

John Wesley sailed all the way to America, the United States of America, to preach the gospel to the Red Indians.

He failed miserably.

He did not even convert one first nation person.

On his way back, the ship, the big sailing ship got into trouble in the mighty Atlantic Ocean, and was taking in water and was starting to sink.

And he climbed up out of his cabin and as he got onto the deck, he saw a group of German Moravian born-again Christians.

They were singing hymns.

They were rejoicing, hanging onto the mast as the water was swirling around their legs.

He said to himself, ‘I am not born again. I have never met Jesus. These people know God. I am petrified I am going to drown. They are singing hymns knowing that maybe they would meet with The Lord.”

Oh my dear friend, John Wesley went back to London and in a little bible study group in Aldersgate in London, he said, “A strange warmth came over my heart. Scales fell from my eyes.”

He was born again and he was filled with The Spirit.

Christ came into his heart and with that he started the greatest revival I think the world has ever seen.

What about you today?

Put your hope in Christ.

I want you to pray this little prayer after me as I say goodbye to you:

Dear Lord Jesus

Please come into my heart today.

Please forgive me for trying to make my own plan.

From today, I promise Lord, that my hope will be in Christ living within me.

I open the door and ask You to be with me and I with you!