Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A sign

   There is a home here in Kalamazoo, Michigan, off of Parkview rd (near D & W) that for Christmas this year displayed a HUGE sign in their front yard.  Everytime I drive by it I want to stop and meet the people who live there. I want to know what their sign means to them & why they made it sooooooooo HUGE. Some day I AM going to stop over there and ask but until then, I will just drive by and enjoy what they have displayed causing my heart to reflect upon what rests in their front yard.  Are you curious what it is??? It is a word. Each individual letter is cut out, HUGE, and standing on its own. It is the word:
 
H O P E
 
We have a HUGE HOPE.
 
    1.We have the the HUGE... "Hope of GLORY." (majestic beauty...the splendor and bliss of heaven..perfect happiness...the height of enjoyment)
 
"Christ in you, the HOPE of GLORY." Colossians 1:27
 
    2.We have the HUGE ... "Hope of SALVATION." (deliverance from evil and the penalty of sin)
 
"Since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the HOPE OF SALVATION as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. " 1 Thess. 5:8 & 9
 
    3.We have the HUGE  hope that "when He appears , we shall be like him."
 
"Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we WILL BE has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like HIM  ( ahhhhh...perfect!), for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has THIS HOPE in him purifies himself, just as he is pure." 1 John 3:3
 
   4. We have the HUGE HOPE of "the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ."
 
  " For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to allmen. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the BLESSED HOPE- the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from ALL wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good." Titus 2:11- 14
 
May we know what we are hoping for.  We have a HUGE HOPE. May we be sure and certain.  .....and may we be "JOYFUL in HOPE." Romans 12:12
 
" Now faith, is being SURE of what we HOPE FOR and CERTAIN of what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1
 
Blessings from Bombadil........the home just down the road from the HUGE HOPE sign. Kristy Link
 
 
 
 
 
 


"I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me." Phillipians 1:25 & 26