Hope

Hope has been a common thread going through this last week. I was at a prayer meeting and one of the members asked for prayer to have hope. In talking with another friend, she told me the most important thing for people to have was hope. I've been thinking a lot about having hope too. I do have hope, and I 'hope' I never lose it. So what makes us lose hope?

Often it is our circumstances. Perhaps through decisions we make the results aren't what we had 'hoped' for. Things look bleak, dismal, like they;ll never change. We begin losing the ability to see our goals we once had, the positive side of things, the light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe that light looks more like a train headed straight for us, than the light of God that never burns out. We lose hope.

How do we get it back? By focusing on God. When everything we see, say, and do is within the perspective of God and what he is doing in our lives and what he promises us in His Word, we can't have anything but hope. He is so faithful and never changing, and he makes good on every promise. We can have peace in knowing that what we are going through now is just another season of our lives, and no matter what is going on, God can and will make it all turn out for good.

Another friend felt people were against her and didn't have good intentions towards her. God brought up a verse to my mind immediately and I prayed it for her. If God is for us, who can be against us? What can mere man do to us? (paraphrased) God is bigger than our circumstances and bigger than the enemy who tries to thwart God's plans for us. Have hope. Keep looking at God. Be amazed at what He is accomplishing. Never give up. Blessings on this very hot Monday!