Christ, Our Hope For All Seasons

 

Christ, Our Hope For All Seasons

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld by Me from birth, who have been carried from the womb: Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Isaiah 46: 3, 4

Every season of life has its’ challenges. Youth, maturity, and age come upon us by degrees and with them bring the peculiar characteristics unique to each of them. Christ transcends them all. Our text today declares, ‘Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld by Me from birth, who have been carried from the womb: Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.’ Although, God addresses this to Israel, in it we find great evangelical truth.

There is no season of life where Christ is not our Hope. Many of us can bear testimony to the fact that the Holy Spirit granted unto us regeneration and repentance while we were very young. Christ was our Hope in childhood. Through what was, for some of us, a very traumatic experience, through which no child should ever have to go, Christ bore us up. He was our Hope when we doubted that we would live to see the age of majority. In the days of our youth, with all of its’ awkwardness of discovering both who we are, and where we fit or did not fit, Christ was the Divine Constant in our variable world. Upon Him we could depend through all the fickle relationships, and tumultuous upheavals of immaturity. As we became adults, married, became members of the workforce, had children, bought houses, made career choices, Christ was our Hope. We have found Him to be Our Never Failing Guide, our all-Wise Counsellor, and Changeless Friend.  For those of us who are watching the sunset of life, Christ is still Our Hope. He bears us up as our physical frame weakens. He remembers, when we no longer can. He gives us spiritual health as physical health fades. Yes, Christ is Our Hope in every season of life, from childhood to old age. Jesus never fails.

Our Gracious, Loving Savior,
We Hope in You for all our days.
From You are all our expectations,
in every season of life.
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Where the Bush is Burning
Tomm Tice