Tom had never been on a fishing boat before, and he was now thinking it was the stupidest thing he'd ever done in his life. Who would ever have believed that seasickness could be this awful? With every pitch and roll, Tom wondered how he was going to survive the remaining two hours of the trip.
One of the deckhands came up to him and said, "Don't worry, young fella. Nobody ever died of seasickness."
"You've just taken away my last hope for relief," Tom said.
It's a terrible thing to live without hope. It's bad enough to be miserable and have no hope of relief, but it's even worse to have no hope of anything beyond this life.
Paul looks back to what the Ephesians had before they became Christians (or more accurately, what they didn't have):
"Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world." (Eph. 2:12, NIV)
We live in a world without hope, because it is a world without Christ. But we as Christians have a hope that is founded in Christ and what he has done for us. "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast..." (Heb. 6:19)
Hold fast the hope of your calling!
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