{"id":6138,"date":"2014-04-18T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2014-04-17T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:21:06","slug":"the-hope-of-the-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/2014\/04\/the-hope-of-the-resurrection.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hope of the Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cross\"<\/a>It\u2019s Good Friday.<\/p>\n

Do you sometimes feel as if your life is lived \u00a0in a perpetual Good Friday mode? Like the movie, Ground Hog Day, it seems you are replaying the same bad day over and over, fighting despair and struggling. Disease, broken relationships, prodigal children…the landscape looks bleak and can easily lead to despair.<\/p>\n

But Good Friday reminds us that all our suffering and struggles will one day end. One day there will be no more tears, no death, no mourning or pain. All things will be made new.<\/p>\n

Easter is not about the bunnies or all the candy. Easter is about Hope. No matter how bleak Good Friday seems, Easter reminds us that one day disease will be erased, wrongs will be righted, and brokenness will be healed.<\/p>\n

We are created for that hope and long for that day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 39:7 reminds us, \u201cMy hope is in Him,\u201d not circumstances or people. Psalm 119:147 says, \u201cI rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.\u201d On Good Friday, cry for help, but remember \u00a0Christ is risen! Our living God is our constant source of hope. He defeated the darkness.<\/p>\n

This Easter season chose hope. Refuse to give in to despair. \u201cLove never gives us, never loses faith is always HOPEFUL, and endures every circumstance ” (I Corinthians 13:7).<\/p>\n

Yes, Good Friday is here, but Easter is coming.<\/p>\n

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