Preparing for Sunday

Song Highlight: I Set My Hope

Our hymn highlight this week is a new hymn by Keith Getty, Matt Boswell & Matt Papa titled I Set My Hope (Hymn for a Deconstructing Friend). As the subtitle of the hymn indicates, this is written in a time and place where there has been an increasing trend in Christianity in what is referred to as “deconstruction.” This is used in the context of someone deconstructing their faith, or walking away from Christianity. Often this is a result of trials that an individual will experience, a desire to pursue a lifestyle of sin rather than Godliness, or pressures from a dark and anti-christian world calling people to leave “foolish” religion. There are certainly more reasons than this, but this hymn is a response that Christians can and should sing boldly amid the trials and temptations we face. When we go through trials and seasons of sorrows, we are to set our hope on Jesus and find joy in him. When we falter and stumble in sin, we are to set our hope on Jesus as the one who forgives us our sins and makes us righteous through his dying sacrifice. And when the world around us mocks, persecutes, and calls us to abandon our Lord, we are to set our hope on Jesus, the one who will lead us our whole life and bring us home where we will worship Him forever and ever. That is the great hope that we have! So, friend, in all things, set your hope on Jesus.