1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
Hope!
It is a word that has been used a lot lately.
During this last election a certain individual rode the coat tails of hope all the way to the top! It still remains to be seen what he will do with the hype… I mean hope that the people who supported him believed he offered. Though, I believe the ‘o’ he hung over the ‘y’ is beginning to wear thin.
Where does your hope lie, or with whom?
Hope is the fuel we use to believe that there will be a better tomorrow, and without it there’s no reason for a tomorrow, only the depressing thought of another day just like the other ones. If you ask a hundred people what they hope for you will get a hundred different answers and I am certain that the vast majority of those limping through life on psychiatric drugs to offset depression really suffer from a lack of hope… depression is only a symptom.
Hope and faith are closely related. Here is the definition found on Wikipedia.
Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.
Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
What it boils down to is who or what have you placed your hope in. What happens to your dream for tomorrow is directly related to the hope that is within you. If your hope is firmly rooted in the here and now… in some one or something that is part of what will one day pass, then one day your hope for tomorrow will pass too, it will become another day just like the one before it.
But, there is one who offers true Hope with a capital ‘H’. Not hope in what happens tomorrow, but for what happens when tomorrow is no more. For some of us there will come a day when the hope, success, fears and pain we experience in this world will be a distant memory on the horizon. When the sun has risen on an eternal sky a million years from now the memory of this earth will be as distant as kindergarten is to an aged man. But, what about the rest of us… What about you? Is your hope born by the back of one who offers hype? Or is it on the eternal promise that Jesus offers?
Where, or in who hope, or faith lies, is the only thing that will matter when all hope for this world is lost… when there is no tomorrow. For all of us, that day may be coming a lot sooner than later.
Ask God today for the hope he offers you in Jesus, while there is still time! He is listening and waiting even as you read this... what are you waiting for?
Jesus says:
Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Psalm 23:6 And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Hope!
It is a word that has been used a lot lately.
During this last election a certain individual rode the coat tails of hope all the way to the top! It still remains to be seen what he will do with the hype… I mean hope that the people who supported him believed he offered. Though, I believe the ‘o’ he hung over the ‘y’ is beginning to wear thin.
Where does your hope lie, or with whom?
Hope is the fuel we use to believe that there will be a better tomorrow, and without it there’s no reason for a tomorrow, only the depressing thought of another day just like the other ones. If you ask a hundred people what they hope for you will get a hundred different answers and I am certain that the vast majority of those limping through life on psychiatric drugs to offset depression really suffer from a lack of hope… depression is only a symptom.
Hope and faith are closely related. Here is the definition found on Wikipedia.
Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.
Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
What it boils down to is who or what have you placed your hope in. What happens to your dream for tomorrow is directly related to the hope that is within you. If your hope is firmly rooted in the here and now… in some one or something that is part of what will one day pass, then one day your hope for tomorrow will pass too, it will become another day just like the one before it.
But, there is one who offers true Hope with a capital ‘H’. Not hope in what happens tomorrow, but for what happens when tomorrow is no more. For some of us there will come a day when the hope, success, fears and pain we experience in this world will be a distant memory on the horizon. When the sun has risen on an eternal sky a million years from now the memory of this earth will be as distant as kindergarten is to an aged man. But, what about the rest of us… What about you? Is your hope born by the back of one who offers hype? Or is it on the eternal promise that Jesus offers?
Where, or in who hope, or faith lies, is the only thing that will matter when all hope for this world is lost… when there is no tomorrow. For all of us, that day may be coming a lot sooner than later.
Ask God today for the hope he offers you in Jesus, while there is still time! He is listening and waiting even as you read this... what are you waiting for?
Jesus says:
Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Psalm 23:6 And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
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