HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE

Our hope rests on the finished work at the cross and not just on how, or when, Jesus may make a re-appearance back to earth. I can’t think of a faster way to perhaps miss him altogether than by being overly concerned about his return. We must fully grasp the first coming to have a chance of grasping the second. “He saved us, not the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life” (Titus 3:5-7). It is the ‘hope of eternal life’ that must motivate our thinking and living.
“And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.” Jesus
“However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.” Jesus