As we’ve started a new year, the Bible tells us there can be hope for the future.
First, there is a hope of a changed person. Second, there is hope of a changed world. Third, there is hope of an unchanging eternity in Heaven.
We are incapable of ridding ourselves of the selfishness and greed that cause conflict, strife, and war.
“Everybody thinks of changing Humanity and Nobody thinks of changing Himself.” —L. Tolstoy.
Our only hope is a changed heart—and Jesus is in the business of changing hearts.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).
There is a dramatic change in our lives when we come to know Christ as Savior. He has made Christians “new creatures” in Christ, fit for heaven!
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” —C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
