Devotional Song: ... Go to this link … Please take the time to take in a video with an anonymous praise group singing the powerful hymn … In Christ Alone, declaring the reality for Christians that our only hope in this life and the next lies in our Savior, … King Jesus!!
Highlight Passage Nehemiah 1: 8-9 [NKJV] …
5 For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
… God speaks to the parents of Samson as to God’s hope being placed in the life of this Nazarite child…
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Highlight Context - Judges 13: 1-7 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God sent Samson to be the hope of His people
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Reference Passage #1 - Psalm 71: 4-5 [NKJV] …
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 5 For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth.
… The Lord is our only hope for deliverance …
Reference Passage #2 - Isaiah 53: 6 [NKJV] …
6 All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his on way; and the Lord has laid on HIM the iniquity of us all.
… The prophesy of all our hopes for deliverance being placed on King Jesus, The Messiah …
Reference Passage #3 - Luke 1: 13-17 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… The prophesy of another Nazarite, John - the Baptizer - being called to lead God’s people to their hope in The Christ …
Reference Passage #4 - John 16: 33 [NKJV] …
33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
… Jesus declares that He is our hope in times of trouble … that HE has overcome the world …
My Journal for Today: Today’s Our Daily Bread devotional entry, authored by Jennifer Benson Schuldt, uses a news story to illustrate the hope that we can only find in the Messiah Who was sent to mankind to deliver us from ourselves. But the ODB author today took her readers (me) back to one of the many bad times in the book of Judges when God’s people had rebelled in sin and in Judges, Chapter 13, linked above, God sends a Nazarite to be their hope of deliverance, … the child Samson.
A “Nazarite” was a called one, … one who had certain life demands placed on them to become what God intended them to be. And we know how Samson became disobedient to his calling not to cut his hair; and in his disobedience, he was rendered helpless in his task to be a Judge for God’s people. Yet, finally, in the end, he was restored to power and became the deliverer he was called to be.
And another such Nazarite, centuries later, John, the Baptizer, was called to prophesy and declare the Christ-hood of THE Savior of the World. And John became a voice in the wilderness declaring that The Messiah had come in the Person of Jesus, … The Christ. And Jesus would become THE ONE Whom God’s people - His faithful followers - could place their everlasting hope.
Please take in all that I’ve been given above to share with readers here today and sing out a loud HALLELUJAH! to THE ONE Who has come and has delivered us from our selves into eternal life in glory!
My Prayer Today: Yes, HALLELUJAH, Lord … You are our only hope! Amen
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