Hope Came Down

Hope Came Down

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

ROMANS 15:13

In Max Lucado’s book God Came Near, Lucado reminds us that God had this choice in coming. He left heaven and chose to come because of us. Lucado writes, “Since he could bear your sins more easily than he could bear the thought of your hopelessness, he chose to leave [heaven].”

People were hopeless then and they are hopeless now. While Jesus chose to arrive in Bethlehem two thousand years ago, He offers the same hope to all today. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus can look into any weary, dark, and hopeless soul and fill it with hope and a peace that transcends all understanding (Philippians 4:7) and every circumstance.

Hope came down at Christmas.