I will return her vineyards to her
and transform the Valley of Trouble
into a door of hope.
Hosea 2:15
I love that image of a door of hope.
And it makes me of those gameshows I watched as a kid. Do you remember contestants having to choose between what was behind door number 1, door number 2, or door number 3?
Behind one of the doors were plane tickets to Bermuda and an all-expense paid vacation. Behind the second door was a year's supply of Rice-r-oni. And behind the third and final door would be something as worthless as a bale of straw.
In life we have a choice. And most people keep choosing between doors 2 and 3. Those are our worldly options. We constantly have to choose between somewhat tasty (Rice-r-oni) and basically meaningless (straw). Think about it, that's all the world really has to offer -- temporary taste or eternal waste.
God holds open another door -- the door of hope.
While we live down here on this earth, hope is what transforms the temporary into eternal, the apathy into purpose, and the waste into hope.
And in the end, faith promises us another door of hope -- an eternal vacation, all expenses paid by Christ on the cross.
In Christ's Love,
a guy who's already won
an all-expense paid trip
(is it time to start wearing
my Bermuda shorts?)
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