Thursday’s Thought

      A Mid-Week Inspirational Message

    (C) 2003-2009 Ron Adams

HOPE

Anchor of the Soul

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever

according to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 6:17-20

Stimulus to Action

Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. It is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance. For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

Titus 4:7b-10

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1 John 3:2-3

Incentive to Persevere

For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

Romans 8:24-25

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for

our instruction, so that through perseverance and the

encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 15:4

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:23

[Emphasis: Author] Quotations from NASB