Titus 2:13-14 while we wait for the blessed hope —the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
A school organization
in a large city had a program to help children who were going to be in the
hospital for long periods. This visitation program served two purposes: they did
not get behind in their schoolwork and to encourage them. One of the teaches
was assigned to work with a child, and she visited his regular teacher and
discovered they were working on nouns and pronouns. She visited the young boy
that afternoon, but no one had told her the child had been very severely burned
and was in tremendous pain.
When she visited the child and saw the condition he was in, it shook her to the core, and she did not think she had helped him at all. The next day when she arrived, the nurse asked her what she had done to that child. Thinking she had done something wrong; she began apologizing. The nurse said, “we had been worried about the child because he had all but given up. However, after your visit, his whole attitude has changed.” Several weeks later, the young boy explained he had given up all hope until the teacher arrived. He came to a simple comprehension; he expressed it this way: “They wouldn’t send a teacher to teach nouns and pronouns to a dying boy, would they?
Every Christian has not only a hope for eternal life but, as this verse explains, a blessed hope.” Our hope is in the imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. The hope of the second coming of Christ Jesus changes every aspect of our lives. Like the young boy in the hospital that could see no path to continued life until he discovered hope from one visit from a teacher, our hope is in the truth that because of our teacher, our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, we have hope in knowing that we are never going to die, but have eternal life (John 11:25-26; John 3:16).
Redemption brings with it the idea of one being bought out of slavery; to redeem someone is a payment to release them from the chains of servitude. Jesus paid the ransom for us, to free us from the bonds and chains of sin and Satan (Mark 10:45; 1 Timothy 2:6). Jesus has paid for our sins so that we do not have to pay since we could not pay. Christ Jesus paid the price for our sins with His precious, sinless blood. When we accept what He has done on the Cross of Calvary for our sins, realize and accept that there is nothing we can do to cleanse us from our sin, we can then know and have the blessed hope of eternal life.
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