Hope (Colossians 3 v 1 - 4 )

The very nature of life will bring with it difficulties,challenges,trials and sorrows,we have to be realistic it is no good to think otherwise.Of course that does not mean that life will be all gloom and sadness .One of the nicest Christian I have ever known has Parkinson disease, I pray for him every day.One may ask why  should such a lovely soul suffer such a thing?,but we can also say why not?.The fact is we will not be excluded from some degree of trial's, that's a fact , it does not mean that God does not love and care for us,He most surely does. For the non Christian their vision is horizontal,they don't have an upward  look, they have no sure and certain hope.  It is becoming more and  more obvious,many now are not having funerals as such,no service is held,the undertaker takes away the body,and then brings the ashes to the loved ones, that's all there is to it ,I do not write this as a criticism of those people. The end for the Christian is more than ashes in a container,for we have a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. Like the saints of old we look beyond the temporal to the eternal, the non -Christian just looks at the temporal. A Mrs L.B. Cowman wrote,'Strive to be one of the few  who walk this earth with the ever present realization- every morning,noon,and night- that the unknown that people call heaven is directly behind those things that are visible.' 

                                                    'Christ in you ,the hope of glory'

                                                               Colossians 1 v 27.