Our Hope Must Be In Christ Grace Coach Podcast

We all have a tendency to put our hope in the things of this world. There is nothing unusual about that, it's part of our human nature. But what if we could learn to put our hope in heaven on a daily basis? Or even within each hour? What would that be like? How would that affect the way we livens?
Transcript
Want to discover your freedom in Christ? Then listen in as Mike stone and Kevin Smith talk about it today on grace coach. Today we're going to talk about our hope and the hope that's mentioned in the Bible.
And it's all based really Kevin on this key, verse Colossians, one five, that says, the hope that is stored up for you and me in heaven, that we have a great hope to look forward to.
You know, I looked up some other words that the Bible uses for heaven. And Hebrews 1116 calls it a heavenly country. Luke 23, he calls it paradise. JOHN 14, two, john calls it my father's house.
And the second Corinthians Paul calls Heaven, a building from God. So it's having home in heaven. One day, the day we're absent from the body and present with the Lord. And often we put our hope in so many things down here. I do it you do it, everybody does it. And really the reason for this podcast about changing your hopers because this is something I struggle with. Amen. Lately, I've been struggling more with trying to find out where my frustration is coming in, just in, in in this life, and it really had to do with God wants to change my hope, or from the things that we spend so much time doing down here thinking about people places and things and to change our hope to the hope that stored up for us and heaven. Yes, absolutely. We depend on so many things that are like shifting sand
in their in their misplaced dependencies. Because they change their variable. You know, so many things, our health, our wealth of friends, I was just talking to some
guys earlier this morning. Just saying you know, you can't be a people pleaser in depend on your well being, if people are gonna like you, because people you know, are so up and down one day you like, you know, the day you don't like them.
You know, you get your career, your business, whatever your whatever you're doing it, you take this dependency on that. But that could change. I mean, this last year COVID, you know, I know I got laid off when COVID struck, and a lot of people, a lot of businesses shut down. If I had my dependency of my identity on my job, I would be a wreck right now. You know, a lot of people, a lot of mothers that might be listening to us do their family and their kids, their their get a lot of their identity and dependency from their kids. But they're going to grow up and get married.
And they're not going to be as influenced, you know, in your life. Always be your kids, but you can't depend on them and their love the government, every crisis, they're infringing more and more in our lives. And you know, that's a hot topic and very controversial. We won't get into too much of the weeds of that. But the fact is a fact you know, they're there. They're there. And they're growing more and more classic, like we're talking about a lot of people are giving people money in work depending on now.
They're talking about a universal basic income that's going to become an amine, that's dependency right there. And if we're dependent on the government,
that that could be a problem. Well, that'll change as soon as there's a new, a new term, right? That's the term is four years and that changes. Yeah. So we, we spend so much time putting out our hope and the things you just mentioned, Kevin health, our wealth, our inheritance, who likes us Who doesn't? Yeah, we do live in this world. And we have to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. But God wants us to think on things above and to put our hope in heaven one day,
and it's gonna happen either we're going to die as a born again Christian, and then be with the Lord that day, or will still be alive and the rapture will come an