KEEP YOUR "HOPE OF SALVATION" BRIGHT!

Maintain "the Full Assurance of the Hope"

Our active participation in the preaching work is also a means to help us keep our hope bright. Paul wrote: "We desire each one of you to show the same industriousness so as to have the full assurance of the hope down to the end." (Hebrews 6:11) May each of us, then, put on "as a helmet the hope of salvation," thus remembering that "God assigned us, not to wrath, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." ( 1 Thessalonians 5:8, 9) Let us also take to heart Peter's exhortation: "Brace up your minds for activity, keep your senses completely; set your hope upon the undeserved kindness that is to be brought to you." (1 Peter 1:13) All who do so will see their "hope of salvation" completely fulfilled!

In the meantime, what should be our view of the time that remains for this system? How can we use that time to gain salvation for ourselves and others? We will consider these questions in the following article.

Next time: 'SAVE YOURSELF AND THOSE WHO LISTEN TO YOU'

Watchtower, 2000