There Is Always Hope
The once slave trader and redeemed sinner John Newton once said, “Even though I feel like an irreconcilable sinner, Jesus gives me hope.”
I’ve had many moments where I’ve felt the same—helpless, hopeless, overwhelmed by my sin. But like Newton, I’ve been confronted by the grace and love of Jesus Christ.
There is always hope.
To be human is to feel the weight of our sin. But far too many remain crushed under it—suffocated rather than redeemed. Are you in that place? Do you believe your sin makes you beyond hope? The devil lies. Your own heart lies. But there is hope.
At the end of Romans 7, the Apostle Paul opens his heart to us: For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out… Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! (vv. 18–19, 24–25).
Even Paul—the foremost evangelist and apostle of the early church, who penned much of the New Testament—wrestled deeply with the weight of his own sin. Yet God’s grace overwhelmed him. Without Jesus, there is only despair. But with Him, there is unshakable hope.
Paul didn’t find hope in himself or his circumstances. He found it in Christ alone: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).
John Newton knew that hope. Paul lived in that hope. And you can too. Because of Jesus’ finished work—His beautiful, sacrificial death and victorious resurrection—we are forgiven and made alive in Him.
When we come to saving faith, we are set free. We are no longer condemned, no longer irreconcilable, but alive in the power of a loving God.
No matter how heavy your sin feels or how chaotic life becomes—there is always hope in the God who raises the dead.
And He will finish what He started: And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6).
Jesus never withdraws His grace. He never abandons His own. Jesus always gives us hope.
Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
