Life for millions is dull, flat, daily routine with no major problems, but no hope—just an unsatisfying existence.
Maybe you had a normal childhood. No major worries, no struggle for existence, and a reasonable expectation of becoming an adult.
There have been some high points: the first job, courtship, marriage, a new home, the first child. But now the days pass in monotony. You strive to “get ahead,” get a new car, a better house, a comfortable retirement. You see your neighbors doing the same, but there’s no future except routine living—then old age—then death. And that’s scary!
If this sounds familiar to you, let me tell you something: Becoming a Christian will change your life! I don’t mean going to church occasionally; I mean accepting Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of your life.
The Apostle Peter speaks of it as having a new birth, being “born again” to “a [living] hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” A living hope! Not a dull and fuzzy sitting-in-church-with-a-long-face hope about the future, but a new life NOW.
The life that Peter was talking about is a new life from God that people receive when they believe on Jesus Christ. They become a new person with a new life in Christ Jesus. Instead of the fleeting happiness they have struggled to find, they now have a permanent joy in God that will last forever.
Since Jesus Christ is Lord of everything, acknowledging Him will not only affect your eternal destiny, but it will influence your daily work, your leisure and your family life; in fact, every aspect of your life will be changed.
The problem in your life now is simply sin. You may be a wonderful person, but everyone is sinful and separated from God unless his sins are forgiven in Jesus.
The words Peter wrote are found in that most wonderful book, the Bible. Read this book about God’s miraculous ways with people. God comes to you and me in the person of Jesus Christ—His only Son, who lived, died and rose again so that all who believe on Him should have real life.
You need Jesus desperately. Receive Him by faith into your heart. Then you can start on the greatest future of all. And that future starts right now!
“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:1717Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)). “Thou wilt show me the path of life: in Thy presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore” (Psa. 16:1111Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. (Psalm 16:11)). Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:1010The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)).