There's always hope!

Bombers forever!

Grey Cup Sunday saw the defeat of my beloved Blue Bombers to the B.C. Lions 34 to 23. It was another heart breaking loss for my team in the big game.....the fifth straight Grey Cup loss in the last 21 years. The longest championship drought in the CFL continues into next year. The great thing about it though is there's always next year....there is a sense of hope, despite the sting of emptiness and defeat. It's true the Bombers come away empty handed....but the turn around season, last year being only a 4 win season, to the incredible run to a 10 win season and a shot at Earl Grey's cup gives this fan a sense of satisfaction and hope. There's always hope for next year, and my prediction is a Grey Cup win for the big BLUE in the 100th Grey Cup in our own backyard, when it's hosted in Toronto.
Which brings me to the thought of hope. I saw the mass of humanity huddled in B.C. place taking in the sights and sounds of the big game on my television when I got home and couldn't help but wonder to myself, do they have hope in Jesus? They were all praying and hoping their respective teams would win the game, but do they know Him. Because with out Christ in one's life, really there is no hope. It is a hopeless existence to enter into eternity without the provisions of eternal life through the "Lamb who was led to the slaughter." (Isaiah 53:7)
Believers who have put their trust fully into the "Son of a carpenter" who gave His life in the most of humiliating way in order to redeem sinners have the greatest of HOPE, when they leave behind their mortal coil. It is a hope that does not disappoint. It is a hope of great promise. It is a hope of great truth that all the wickedness and evil that chokes this world will be judged and the light of God will penetrate it fully. It is a hope that recognizes that one day "every knee will bow and confess that Jesus is LORD." (Philippians 2:10-11).
It is a hope rooted in the fact that God has not lost control, but is fully in control of all things, "for in Him all things consist." (Colossians 1:17).
It is a hope that will give way to ultimate fulfillment when the LORD returns (hopefully before next year's Grey Cup!).
My question to you is do you know this type of hope? Or do your hopes rest in the nothingness, emptiness and lies of this world, because if they do, then you have no hope.