Hope for the Future?

This is May 21, 2025. Wednesday. Ever since last Thursday the states of Wisconsin, Colorado, Indiana, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky have experienced life-threatening, devastating tornadoes. Communities have seen calamities and destruction. Many people have suffered great loss--the loss of their homes, businesses and sadly the loss of loved ones. Tornadoes, floods, giant-sized hail storms. When will this end? Will it ever end? Is there even hope for the future?

Today, I would like to share with you that, yes, there is bright hope for the future! We have a God who cares about each one of us; He cares about you. God is full of compassion and love for all humanity.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted

and saves those who are

crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:18

Before you turn away from hearing more, ask yourself this question: Can any person remedy all the trials and catastrophes of this life? And, if you're asking the question: "If God is so good, where is He?", please allow me to explain.

The Bible says that "there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation." Daniel 12:1.  We are warned in 1 Peter 5:8, to "be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time." Revelation 12:12. The devil's time is "short"--that is good news for all of us!

Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And, if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14:1-3 And, in the book of Revelation, chapter 22 verse 12, He promises, "Behold I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to everyone according to his work."

The Bible, referring to the second coming of Jesus, tells us in 1 Thessalonians 4 verses 16-17, "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."

Here's another wonderful promise: "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Then, He who sat on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.' 'Now I (the apostle, John) saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.'" Revelation 21:4,5,1

So, as 2 Peter 3:13 states, we can "look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells"! "And, God Himself will be with them (us) and be their (our) God" according to Revelation 21:3!

For God so loved the world that He gave

His only begotten Son,

that whoever believes in Him

should not perish

but have everlasting life.

John 3:16