Devotion:
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Read 1 Peter 1:3-9.
The politicians and their campaign staffers do their best to convince us that our future depends on them being elected. If we are not paying attention, it is easy to get caught up in their rhetoric. They all claim that if they are elected, the future will be good; if the other candidate/side is elected, we are all doomed.
Christians, more than any other group of people, know better. We know that it is in Jesus Christ that we have a hope-filled future. Bishop David Graves, who grew up in Hixson and served as an excellent pastor and District Superintendent in Holston Conference, loves to say, “The best is yet to come!” Some people hear him say that and wonder if he is paying attention to all that is going on in our world these days. It is tempting to instead think that our worst days are ahead. But Bishop Graves and all of us Christians can say that with confidence because of the message that these verses from the Apostle Peter’s letter offer. We have been given “a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…” Let’s live like we believe that!
Personal Worship Option:
Here’s another song I grew up singing, verses written by Isaac Watts and the chorus by Robert Lowry. May it be your song of invitation and celebration today.
Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known; join in a song with sweet accord, join in a song with sweet accord and thus surround the throne, and thus surround the throne.
We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion; we’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God!
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