Advent Devotional - Day Two

Acts 1:8-9:  You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.  After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

“Things are looking up!”  We often need to hear those words, don’t we?  “Our new business has turned the corner and we’re finally in the black. “Things are looking up!”  The storm is finally over, and help is on the way. “Things are looking up!”  The doctor says the long course of treatment is over and the cancer is gone. “Boy are things looking up!’  When things are looking up there is hope, a real and true hope.  When things are looking up there now is a future, a future that just wasn’t there before.  When things are looking up we can confidently face each new day.  And ever since Christ brought the light of God’s hope into our lives we can boldly say “Things are looking up!”

PRAYER
Gracious God, help us to live in our Hope in Christ and share it.

Rev. Tony Catullo, Honorably Retired