OUR LIVING HOPE

OUR LIVING HOPE

Bible: John 6:39-54

Reading

In his great mercy [God] has given us new birth into a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 PETER 1:3).

The morning after my mum died, I was reading the Bible and talking to God about my sadness. The reading for that day was John 6. When I came to verse 39, God whispered comfort to me: “This is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day” (JOHN 6:39). Mum’s spirit was with God already, but I knew that one day she would be raised back to unending life and given a new body. As I kept reading, I noticed three other times in John 6 that Jesus said He will raise His people from the dead at the last day. He was repeating this
truth to those who were listening long ago as well as to me that day. The promise of resurrection will be complete when Jesus returns. “In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable and we will be changed”                      (1 CORINTHIANS 15:52). After the resurrection, those who trust Jesus will be given brand new bodies and a welcome into His home (1 CORINTHIANS 3:12-15; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:9-11).

                                JESUS WILL COME FROM HEAVEN

                                TO TAKE HIS OWN BACK HOME.

                                      Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries