Gabe Fluhrer

You want to dry her tears and hold her and comfort her.

And that's the imagery that God chooses to speak to us in of what he'll do for all of his dear children.

He himself will wipe away their tears.

He himself will undo all the sadness, the grief, the pain, the death, the destruction that we have caused.

In other words, resurrection life always has as its goal the resurrection of all things.

The new heaven and the new earth, that is our hope.

That is what we are pressing on towards.

That is our goal.

That is what is going to happen as certain as the tomb was empty that first Easter Sunday millennia ago.

So what we need to ask ourselves is very simple.

What are you hoping in, my friend?

Is it anything other than Christ?

Because where your hope is, is where you will find meaning, security, trust, identity.

And if it's anything other than Christ, your hope will be exposed as false and it will wreck you.

And God will do that to us if we're his.

He will wreck our false hopes.

He will burn our idols, as it were, so that he can give us true hope, that he can give us resurrection hope, so that only the promises of God as we walk by faith, not by sight, as Paul would tell us in 2 Corinthians.

Only the promises of God offer that life-giving sustenance that's spoken of in Psalm 1.

So that as we meditate on the law of the Lord day and night, we become like trees planted by the river.

We become those who can say with the psalmist, my flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the portion of my heart forever.