We are all on a journey. Anyone of a certain age can remember these song titles:
Time Keeps on Slipping Into the Future and Time in a Bottle
Or what about the music groups Journey and Foreigner?
We have a certain attitude as we move through this journey of life. The attitude is either one of hope or hopelessness. An attitude of looking at the glass half full or half empty.
Definitions:
Hope – (noun) the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best; (verb) to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence; to believe desire or trust.
Less – (adverb) to a smaller extent, amount or degree; most certainly not; (adjective) smaller in size, amount, degree, lower in consideration, rank, or importance; (noun) something inferior or not as important.
Full – (adjective) completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity; (adverb) exactly, directly, very; (verb) to make full as by gathering, pleating, or tucking material.
Too often we place our hope in what we can see, things like our spouse, job, government, education, or healthcare.
However, our real hope to gain “fullness” rather than “lessness” is in looking to Jesus. Colossians 1:27 tells us that the Christ within us is the HOPE of GLORY. Our hopeFULLNESS is in “Jesus BLOOD and RIGHTEOUSNESS”
(Think of the hymn: “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less”).
HopeLESSNESS is when we look to “chariots and horses… governments and banks (Psalm 20:7)” to be our resource, rescuer, or our savior.
My hope is in King Jesus, and Jesus alone.
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, not yet seen.”
(Hebrews 11:1)
Let us begin to believe what the Bible says, “God is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). Let our faith arise to believe and then live as if we believe that God is FAITHFUL to Himself and His word. What He says He will do, will be done!
What promise in God’s word do you need to latch onto and hold on unwavering in hope until you see God moving on your behalf? Once you’ve seen God work in your life it stirs the inner you to have hopeFULNESS in God, not hopeLESSNESS in your circumstances.
In God’s economy Hope equals FAITH and Hopelessness equals FEAR. A Hope filled journey is not one without trouble. Jesus himself said “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33b).
Jesus also said, “…for he (God) makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45).
Begin to look at God’s ability to create beauty for ashes in whatever the circumstance you are facing…God alone brings HOPE to the hopeless.
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God bless you. Stay hopeful! ❤️
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