For The Hope That Is In You

3/29/2024

Reference:

‘but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always [being] ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you’                      [1 Peter 3:15 NASB95]

            After reading my bible, a portion of scripture I had not been reading jumped into my thoughts.  I clearly heard in my head: “for the hope that is in you”.  It was not my thought, and all I knew was that it was somewhere in the Bible, so I opened the concordance of my bible and looked up the word, “hope”.  The very last entry read, ‘for the hope that is in you’!  Wow, what are the odds?!  I then read several chapters bracketing 1 Peter 3, and knew I had to write something…

            Most Americans are by now, acutely aware that our country is somewhere between “in a lot of trouble” and “finished”, depending on the news provider (AKA: propaganda) we tune in to.  It seems that every news source has an underlying agenda to proclaim. Most of them aren’t very open about it, but the agenda is always there, just out of sight, very much like the matador’s sword, hidden under his cape from the unsuspecting bull.  That bull would be us.

I prefer to listen to the conservative news sources available on the Internet, simply because most of the time, their agenda-driven material is more openly supported by provable facts.  Over the last few years, I’ve learned how easy it is to recognize folks who still get their “news” from mainstream television sources, because they are usually fearful and ignorant of what is actually happening in our country.  In fact, their ignorance borders on sheer, willful stupidity much of the time, and to exclude professing Christians by that statement would not be true.  One big problem, again like the matador’s sword, is the hopelessness/hope tension, promulgated by both mainstream and conservative news outlets. 

The mainstream sources would make us fearful and hopeless unless we trust our government to know better about what will make us better, than we do, while the conservative sources would make us fearful and hopeless unless Donald Trump is re-elected in November.  I say this is a losing battle no matter which source we listen to because both will only put us at odds with each other – something that has recently become a cancer in this nation.  We are anything but The United States at this time, instead we are more distinctly divided now than we ever have been since our first civil war (1861- 1865).  This a road that leads only to destruction. 

Jesus Christ said, and later Abraham Lincoln quoted, that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”  Now, more than ever before in our history, including our Civil War, we need to anchor ourselves to one hope, and I believe that alone, will begin to re-unify and heal this America.  Failing that, we will butt heads with each other until the soon-coming day when our new owners will take us over, but by that time we may merely be a smoking ruin of a once great country.

I have felt very strongly for some years that only Jesus Christ can save America if He only will.  The Globalist puppets of both political parties in our nation, would lead us into global servitude.  That is their goal, and they seem to be winning as I write this.  The few true, “America first” politicians are only experts at spinning their wheels in mud they cannot get unstuck from, while the demographic in our country is changing dramatically every day, compliments Barack Obama and his finger-puppet, Joe Biden.  Have we ever needed Jesus Christ more than we do right now?  That answer should be slam-dunk obvious, but it remains elusive in the background as long as both fighters in our political ring fasten their hopes on MEN.

I will go on record to say this:  Only Jesus Christ can save this country, and only Jesus Christ can give this nation the New Birth it now must have.  Jesus heals and resurrects; and nobody else has a corner on that market.  All ownership on this earth is temporary.  Nations rise and fall, and always will.  We have absolutely no guarantee this land will continue to be our land into perpetuity.  None. 

Only Jesus Christ is eternal, and only He is the way into perpetuity for this sick and afflicted country.  Believe it, and fasten your ONLY hope on Him.

John