God gives us a definitive hope

Today, we are at our new place down south in the surburb of Lemming. A new day and a new hope for our stay here in Australia. I was just thinking to myself what to look forward to and I felt terrible and uneasy, not knowing what the future holds. It was as though it is a hopeless scenerio.

Thank God it did not stay that way. As I was reading the reflections of today in my little Living Faith book, scripture spoke to me. The Gospel reading of Luke 6: 38 told of gifts being showered upon us if we first give. The writer said that all that we have is a gift from God and it is through the opportunities that we were given that allowed us to achieve what we have. Therefore we should give as we have been given.

Immediately, I recalled the Lenten session we had with Father Trevor at St Luke's Church last Wednesday when a lady in the group shared about Christian hope, that God gives us a definitive hope. It is this hope of eternal life with Christ that allows us to hope in a future we have not set our eyes on. I remembered thinking to myself that really what we have comes from God and if we can view it in this way, our attachments to things of this world would not be as strong. We can then share what we have because technically, we were given these.

I think more importantly, by giving and sharing what we own, we will receive much more in terms of intangibles like lessons in love, the hope of a better world and a closer walk with God. It is through these experiences that enable us to see beyond our lives here on earth and we can truely live out eternal life with Christ.

God gives us a definite hope, a future filled with that promise of hope. Amen!