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Previous Daily Devotional About worldly hope… 2 Tim. 4:10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. (NIV) Worldly hope rests in selling your house, changing jobs, finding the right spouse, finding the right retirement package, making the right investment, finding the right school, starting your own support group, business, or project while demanding more action from God than you would ever expect from yourself. Here is a truth --- God can do for you what you can do for yourself, but He will probably not do so. God’s inaction when we can act is because God is not in the business of making us dependent or co-dependent. If every action on your part got a visible and tangible reward from God, eventually you would use God like dependent people use others. If God permitted us to use Him for our selfish purposes we would all be like rats pushing down on a lever to get a reward with no worship, no adoration, no repentance, and no surrender of our souls. Worldly hope is empty and vacant. Worldly hope is empty and vacant because at the end of our life, all we ever hoped for comes to an end whether we saw the hope realized or not. However, with Christ as our Savior, at the end of our life we can look forward to a time when what we hope for is larger than life, larger than the universe, and larger than all of time from beginning to end. When we look at our heavenly hope compared to our earthly hope, we can soon see our earthly hope is nothing compared to the great infinity of God’s hope filling His heaven.
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