No matter how bad I am, I have hope. "He will not always accuse us, nor will he keep his anger for ever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickedness. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is his mercy great upon those who fear him." 103:9-13
But, our lives are finite. We will get old and die. "Our days are line the grass, we flourish like a flower of the field; When the wind goes over it, it is gone, and its place shall know it no more," a sobering thought, contemplating your own mortality...even aging and the breaking down of the body. 103:15-16
But, there is hope yet of life after death. "He redeems your life from the grave and crowns you with mercy and loving-kindness" 103:4
Hope, "the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness." 103:8
If the wages of sin are death, our lives have been purchased. "The Lord ransoms the life of his servants, and none will be punished who trust in him." 103:22
We can't do it alone. "We can never ransom ourselves, or deliver to God the price of our life; For the ransom of our life is so great, that we should never have enough to pay it, in order to live for ever and ever, and never see the grave." 49:6-8
Again, we are faced with our own mortality as, "we see that the wise die also; like the dull and stupid they perish and leave their wealth to those who come after them. Their graves shall be their homes for ever, their dwelling places from generation to generation, though they call the lands after their own names. Even though honoured, they cannot live for ever; they are like the beasts that perish." 49:9-11
For the ransomed, there is hope of life eternal. "But God will ransom my life; he will snatch me from the grasp of death." 49:15
8 The Lord said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. Numbers 21:8-9
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,[f] 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him."[g] 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. John 14-18
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