In today’s account from the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, the Jews in Israel were in a dilemma.

Because of the great corruption among the people and their disobedience to God, their nation was weakened both spiritually and militarily. In threat of imminent invasion, instead of getting their spiritual selves together and repenting for their sin they consoled themselves in the promises of false prophets that promised that peace, not destruction, was at hand.

This is human nature in action, because often when people are faced with the unknown or are in difficult situations a natural tendency is not to face the facts, but instead hold to a HOPE that 'Everything Will (somehow) Be All Right.'

Many people hold this same thinking about what happens after they die. Instead of getting right with God, they choose to HOPE that everything will (somehow) 'Just Work Out' because doesn’t heaven await all that do good?? And everything will also (somehow) be 'OK?'

That may be a comforting thought, but here’s the truth:

No One Goes To Heaven By Accident (and)
Hope Is Not A Strategy When Facing The Hereafter!

But here’s the GOOD NEWS (literally, the meaning of the word GOSPEL.)

There IS a real HOPE that we CAN depend on, and that is by HAVING HOPE IN CHRIST:
“According to his (God’s) great mercy,
he has caused us to be born again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
1 Peter 1:3

Friend, before you walk through the door that departs from this life and leads up to the next
Place Your Hope In God...
And Not Your Hope In Your Hope.

God Bless Your Day

Jesus Loves You

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