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Daily Dose of Hope from New Hope

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  • The Daily Dose of Hope is a devotional intended to provide context and reflection to the New Hope Church Bible Reading Plan. It’s our goal to read the Bible in a year together as a family of faith. Five days a week we read. Two days a week we either rest or catch up. Reading the Bible is the number one way to grow in our walk with Jesus. We have to know God’s Word to live God’s Word. Now for our Daily Dose of Hope.
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  • March 12, 2025: Day 4 of Week 50 - Scripture: Job 4-7; Psalm 99; Revelation 11

    March 12, 2025: Day 4 of Week 50 - Scripture: Job 4-7; Psalm 99; Revelation 11
    Mar 12 2025

    March 12, 2025: Day 4 of Week 50 - Scripture: Job 4-7; Psalm 99; Revelation 11

    The Daily Dose of Hope is a devotional intended to provide context and reflection to the New Hope Church Bible Reading Plan. It’s our goal to read the Bible in a year together as a family of faith. Five days a week we read. Two days a week we either rest or catch up. Reading the Bible is the number one way to grow in our walk with Jesus. We have to know God’s Word to live God’s Word. Now for our Daily Dose of Hope… https://www.findnewhope.com
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    2 mins
  • March 11, 2025; Day 3 of Week 50

    March 11, 2025; Day 3 of Week 50
    Mar 11 2025

    Daily Dose of Hope

    March 11, 2025

    Day 3 of Week 50

    Scripture: Job 1-3; Psalm 29; Revelation 10

    Welcome back, everyone, to the Daily Dose of Hope. This is the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Church Bible reading plan.

    Today we are starting the book of Job. This is a book of suffering. We get to see that right away. It’s an unusual book too. The author says that it takes place in the land of Uz, which is far away from Israel and Job is not an Israelite. It’s probable that the author intentionally doesn’t give a lot of historical detail because that isn’t the point. The point is more the questions that are raised by Job’s suffering.

    Chapters 1 and 2 are the prologue of Job. We learn about Job, who is upright and blameless. He has been blessed immensely but he has stayed humble with the highest of integrity. From there, we are transported to the heavens where God is meeting with his angels and someone referred to as Satan, which means accuser. When this accuser tells God that Job is only upright and blameless because God has blessed him with all kinds of good things, then God gives Satan the ability to take that away from Job, to test him essentially, and see if he will stay committed to God.

    Of course, to most of us, this is incredibly frustrating. Why does God do this? It doesn’t make sense. And we might think that maybe the book will answer the question of why. But, spoiler alert, it doesn’t. It does ask more questions about God’s justice which we will be forced to reckon with. The accuser arranges for Job to experience the loss of his children, the loss of his fortune, and then to be covered in boils. Essentially, everything good is stripped from him. But he doesn’t curse God.

    He has three friends who come over to try to comfort him but I don’t think they were much comfort at all. But these friends do represent the typical way of thinking about suffering at the time in that part of the world.

    Chapter 3 brings us into the main part of the book, which includes a lot of prose and poetry. Job speaks first and as we move into the other chapters, we will hear the responses of the three friends. Chapter 3 is exclusively Job, who is lamenting the day he was born. Why did God even allow him to live? We will delve more into this tomorrow.

    Our New Testament text is Revelation 10. In this chapter, John sees another angel come down from the heavens. This angel is wrapped in a cloud. Keep in mind, that clouds often refer to God’s judgment. There is also a rainbow above the head of the angel. Rainbows often refer to God’s covenant. So, we might gather that God’s judgment is coming in regard to God’s covenant with his people.

    But there is also this piece about the little scroll that the angel is carrying. John is told to come get the scroll and eat it. Eating the scroll is a symbol of being ready to prophesy God’s message. Remember that when Ezekiel eats his scroll he finds it to be sweet as honey in his mouth. The Word of God is described as sweet in multiple places in Scripture. Psalm 19:9-10 reads, ...the decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. Notice that when John eats the scroll, he also finds it as sweet as honey. However, after he had eaten it, his stomach was made bitter. The bitterness comes because of the judgments that are still to come. More tomorrow...

    Blessings,

    Pastor Vicki
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    4 mins
  • March 10, 2025; Day 2 of Week 50

    March 10, 2025; Day 2 of Week 50
    Mar 10 2025
    Daily Dose of Hope March 10, 2025 Day 2 of Week 50 Scripture: Malachi 1-4; Psalm 2 ; Revelation 9 Welcome back, everyone, to the Daily Dose of Hope. This is the devotional and podcast that complements the New Hope Church Bible reading plan. For our Old Testament reading, we are reading the book of Malachi, all four chapters. Malachi is the very last book of the Old Testament, a really short book, yet it gets its point across. Malachi is the Cliff Notes of the Old Testament. In these four short chapters, the author gives a brief summary of the whole Old Testament. One of it’s most famous verses, Malachi 3:7, in one verse, gives us a picture of the dynamics of the Old Testament. God is basically saying, “Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” Your ancestors turned away from me, you have turned away from me. It’s time to come back and let me bless you, let me love you, says the Lord. That’s basically the whole Old Testament in a nutshell---keep in mind over and over again throughout the Old Testament (over hundreds of years), God’s people would commit to following God and then fall away. Eventually, they were so rebellious that God lifts his hand of protection and allows the people of Israel and Judah to be conquered by other nations. We’ve read through all of that. Malachi prophesied about 100 years after the Jews returned from exile in Babylon (400-450BC) As we learned in Nehemiah, only a small portion of people returned to Jerusalem. They rebuilt the city, the temple, and the wall around the city. Yet, after living in exile for 70 years, the people were still corrupted by the pagan culture in which they lived. They were far from God. So, as we read over the past few weeks, Ezra and Nehemiah both had instituted reforms, the people had sincerely agreed to follow God. But within a generation, all the reforms, the promises the people had made were forgotten. What’s interesting is that the people were still going through the motions. They were externally religious–they went through the religious tasks that they were supposed to do but it was ALL about outward behavior. This is the period of time in which the Pharisees & Saducees came into being---there was this emphasis on outward religiosity, doing things which make it seem like you are a good religious person. But their hearts were far from God. And we know, what matters to God is not what’s on the outside, it’s not our religious busyness, but it’s our heart. Basically, the people are in no better place than before the exile. No matter how religious the people appear to be, their hearts are not right with God. They have allowed the things of the world, their own selfishness, their own distrust, to lead them a drift, seeking fulfillment in anything BUT God. Thus, God will do a new thing. As we read through chapters 3 and 4, we begin to see Malachi point to something that is to come. No rules or reforms will change the hearts of the people. Rules and reforms don’t change our hearts. We don’t need external changes. Rather, we need someone who will come into our own hearts and transform us from the inside out. We need a Savior, someone to draw us back to God and back to one another. We need Jesus. Malachi 3:1-2,“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty. But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. After the book of Malachi ends, 400 years pass before the people get another word from God. 400 years! These were called the silent years. But then, in God’s perfect timing, God arrives on the scene in a new way, through the person of Jesus Christ AND Jesus picks up right where Malachi left off. In fact, Jesus’ very first message to the people in Mark 1 was to “Repent.” Repent, the kingdom of God is here. Yes, your hearts aren’t right with God. Yes, I know you are selfish, self-absorbed, distracted by the ways of the world, I know your heart through and through. Turn away from your ways and come back to me. Allow me to cleanse you, be the refining fire, to purge out all the impurities, all that’s harmful, all that’s led you astray. Let’s take a look at Revelation 9. Things are beginning to get kind of hard. Let’s do our best to unpack it. The fifth trumpet blows and a star falls from the sky. The star unlocks the key to the abyss. When the abyss is opened, all kinds of evil things come out of it. The people without the seal of God are forced to go through five months of torture at the hands of the scorpion-like locusts who have come from the abyss (five months is the life cycle of a locus). It’s all very graphic ...
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    9 mins

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