Psalm 102:13 KJV  ‘Thou shall arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, yeah, the set time has come.’

DAILY READING –  2 Corinthians 13; 1 Chronicles 3-4; Zephaniah 1

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast side of South Africa. It has long been of special significance to sailors, many of whom refer to it simply as “the Cape”.

This southernmost point of Africa is a place which for centuries has experienced tremendous storms. For many years no one even knew what lay beyond that cape, for no ship attempting to round that point had ever returned to tell the tale. Among the ancients it was known as the “Cape of Storms,” and for good reason. The first European to see the Cape was Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, who was searching for the southern limits of the African continent. He later successfully sailed around that very point and found beyond the wild raging storms of the cape, a great calm sea, and beyond that, the shores of India. The name of the cape was then changed from the ‘Cape of Storms’ to the ‘Cape of Good Hope.’

Until Jesus Christ rose from the dead, death had been ‘the cape of storms’ on which all hopes of life beyond had been wrecked. No one knew what lay beyond that point until, on Easter morning when Christ rose from the death. And through Him today, we have the hope of eternal life.

The hope of eternal life, —that man can escape the power of the grave—has set Christianity apart from other first-century religions and philosophies. At the time when Jesus was on earth, the world was heavily influenced by the culture of the Greek and Roman empires. The Greek and Roman religions held little hope for the dead.

The general belief was that once the body was dead, the soul lived in a miserable twilight existence of sadness, silence and hopelessness. Thus death was to men of those days the ultimate disaster. Against this dreary backdrop, the resurrection of Christ brought to men the great light of hope. And just like those ancient explorers, through Christ, today we can see beyond the storms of life, to the hope of eternal life. On the cross, Christ took our sin and shame, and paid our debt in full. Therefore we don’t have to ever live a defeated life. We don’t have to be stopped by the storms and billows of life. We have crossed from death to life. From the cape of storms, we have indeed come to the cape of good hope in Christ.

Psalm 102:13 says ‘Thou shall arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, yeah, the set time has come.’ Indeed on this resurrection morning, the set time and season for God to favor us has come. And the risen Christ says to us, “Because I live, you shall live also.”

PRAYER; Lord please help me to be a partaker of the goodness  and redemptive package You have won for us at Calvary. Indeed on this resurrection day, I receive a positive change of story in every area of my life in Jesus’ name.

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God is preparing you for the season He prepared for your breakthrough. WORDBITE 222.