On what are you pinning your hopes? Everyone needs hope in something or someone. Too many uncertainties fill our lives for us to continue without hope. Some people put hope in themselves. They work hard to control every aspect of their lives. Others put their hope in money and things, thinking that they will have enough resources to buy their way out of uncertainties. Still others put their hope in people, like a spouse or a friend, to give them stability and to rescue them when their lives fall apart.

But the hope for the world is not hard work, money, or people. The world will find true hope in only one Person, Jesus Christ. Messiah, the World’s Only Hope, presents Christ from the pen of the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah wrote his book of prophecy at a dark time in the history of Judah, a time when the nation was running out of hope. His prophecies on Christ gave hope to Judah. As you study Christ in Isaiah, you will also find confidence for now as well as the future.