Fw: Insight for Today

Team:

Today's Coach is Pastor Chuck Swindoll. Today Coach Chuck shows us that we can have Hope because Jesus Won.

Now we can have the same Hope to Live Forever. To Conquer all our Fears and Win in Life.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Nelson Mandela

Jesus never failed but He went through it so we could Rise with Him.

"God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God's approval through him." 2 Cor 5:21

"ALL GOALS ARE ACCOMPLISHED TWICE. FIRST IN YOUR MIND THEN IN REALITY!"

Be Prepared and Just Go!!

Rick
Phil 4:13
http://huddle360.blogspot.com

------ Email ------

April 22, 2011 
Our Ultimate Hooray, Part Oneby Charles R. Swindoll
Read Revelation 21:4; 22:3, 5

What gives a widow courage as she stands beside a fresh grave?

What is the ultimate hope of the disabled, the amputee, the abused, the burn victim?

How can the parents of children who have brain damage or physical handicaps keep from living their entire lives totally and completely depressed?

Why would anyone who is blind or deaf or paralyzed be encouraged when he or she thinks of the life beyond?

How can we see past the martyrdom of some helpless hostage or devoted missionary?

Where do the thoughts of a young couple go when they finally recover from the grief of losing their baby?

When a family receives the tragic news that a little daughter was found dead or their dad was killed in a plane crash or a son overdosed on drugs, what single truth becomes their whole focus? 

What is the final answer to pain, mourning, senility, insanity, terminal diseases, sudden calamities, and fatal accidents? 

The answer to each of these questions is the same: the hope of bodily resurrection.

We draw strength from this single truth almost every day of our lives---more than we realize. It becomes the mental glue that holds our otherwise shattered thoughts together.

Impossible though it may be for us to understand the details of how God is going to pull it off, we hang our hopes on fragile, threadlike thoughts that say, "Someday, He will make it right" and "Thank God, all this will change" and "When we're with Him, we shall be like Him."

More than a few times a year I look into red, swollen eyes and remind the despairing and the grieving that "there's a land that is fairer than day"1 when, as John promised in the Revelation,

"He will wipe away every tear . . . there will no longer be any death . . . any mourning, or crying, or pain." . . . There will no longer be any curse . . . any night . . . because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever. (21:4; 22:3, 5) 

Hooray for such wondrous hope!
 
1. Sanford F. Bennett and Joseph P. Webster, "Sweet By and By."
Copyright © 2007, 2011 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.  
    Reading a forwarded copy? Sign up here to start receiving the Daily Devotional. Donate Now Share with a Friend Devotional Library Edit Your Profile Unsubscribe from receiving e-mail or change your e-mail preferences. © 2010 Insight for Living. All rights reserved worldwide. nonprofit software