Today I'm thrilled
to be participating in The Twelve Days of Christmas blog tour hosted
by Faith P. This is her second year of gathering bloggers who share
various Christmasy posts with the blogging world during the twelve
days previous to Christmas. (December 14-25.) There are giveaways,
book releases, traditions and recipes shared, favorite Christmas books and movies,
etc. A “what Christmas means to me” post is coming soon on
Faith's blog. Due to how busy life is, this will likely be my only
post during this time.
In trying to decide
what to post about, I looked through my list of ideas I've gathered
over the last few years. I saw one about hope that I had planned on
doing last year but didn't. Lately hope has been coming up all over
the place so it seemed a fitting time. Enjoy!
Hope. One word. So
important. So full of comfort.
Have you ever watched Christmas movies, read Christmas books, seen Christmas cards, etc. with this continuous theme? Why is hope such a frequent topic in this season? The answer: Jesus. When the almighty God gave up his throne and came to earth in human form, that gave all of mankind the ultimate hope—hope of eternal life! Of forgiveness. Of love. Hope was born at Christmas. The very essence of Christmas is hope.
Have you ever watched Christmas movies, read Christmas books, seen Christmas cards, etc. with this continuous theme? Why is hope such a frequent topic in this season? The answer: Jesus. When the almighty God gave up his throne and came to earth in human form, that gave all of mankind the ultimate hope—hope of eternal life! Of forgiveness. Of love. Hope was born at Christmas. The very essence of Christmas is hope.
Romans 8:18 reads,
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not
worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
Because of
Christmas, Christians have hope for
beautiful future glory. Hope is
what gets Christians through difficulty. They
know that their present sufferings are
nothing compared to God's greatness, love, and forgiveness. By
becoming man and sacrificing
himself for us, Jesus tore
the divide between man and God so
Christians have the hope that
there is more than just this life. Their
hope is in God—the only one
worthy.
Live
your life with the constant hope
and longing for the day when we will meet Christ and spend forever
with Him. Most of all,
because we as Christians
have this hope and so many others don't, share
it! Share
the good news! Let the world know that they do have hope if only
they choose to embrace it.
Imagine how wonderful it
would be if everyone who is now living hopelessly discovers that
there is hope. That is the
Christians'
purpose while on this earth. Share
this hope that we have because of what Jesus did for us.
Isn't
it
wonderful? We have hope
because of Christ's gift to us. Jesus
bridged
the gap that separated us
from God. Now we know that if
we accept his gift, we can
live forever with Him in a perfect kingdom ruled by the most High!
Praise be to God for giving
us this hope.
Be sure to visit
Faith's blog for a list of other bloggers who are doing other
Christmas-related posts. Thank you for including me, Faith!
Please
stop by Jesseca
Dawn's blog to see her newest published Christmas story!
Also,
be sure to visit my blog to see my new wintertime layout! And don't
hesitate to let me know if the font is too difficult to read. Thanks!
Merry
Christmas, friends!
Beautiful post, Bethany. <3 Sorry it's taken me so long to get over and comment, but thank you so much for participating in the linkup. Your post was amazing. :D
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