Daily Devotional
God’s Word Offers Confident Hope in Jesus

July 19, 2023

Ponder This

Some years ago, a submarine sank off the coast of Massachusetts that went by the title S-4. It sank in deep waters. Many ships sped to the rescue to see if they could raise the ship and rescue the crew. They sent a diver many feet beneath the surface, and that diver put his gear up to the shell of that submarine, and he heard a message in Morse code. The message was a question: “Is there any hope?” And that’s what this world wants to know.

For some people, there is no hope. As one person said, it looks like we’re looking into the muzzle of a loaded cannon. Somebody said that hopelessness is the saddest word in the human language. Other people have hope, but it is a false hope. Somebody said there is no greater false hope than the first four hours of a diet. For many people, there is hope, but it is a false hope. Other people have hope, but it is an uncertain hope. But this passage of Scripture speaks of the Second Coming of Jesus. It calls the Second Coming “the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.” And the Bible calls it a certain hope, a “blessed hope.”

• Where would you say you look for hope?
• How do your daily actions support or contradict this claim?

Practice This

Spend some time in prayer, asking God to reveal the places you’ve put your hope outside of Jesus. Ask Him to lead you toward the certain hope of Jesus.