Hope is an incredible thing. When someone has hope, their life will be lived out differently. Hope fills our days.
Without hope, people find life mundane and even depressing. Without hope is it easy to just get by. That is why it is so important to find hope and to give hope to others. Life is meant to be full and strong.
That is why David, the king and giant killer, said he had to spend time with the one who gives hope. When he does spend that time with God and in His word, his journey is greater.
Psalm 119:11 NIV
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
The Word of God gives us hope. That hope comes with guidance, strength and with hope. Hide His word in you for more of the same good stuff.
Psalm 71:5 NASB
For You are my hope; Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.
Again that is from David. He said from his earliest of years God was the beginning of and the hold of the hope that was so important to Him. This is not a hope that came with position or with being in the right family.
His hope was personal. This hope was real and life long. I really like the idea that hope is tied to confidence. That would mean that having no confidence is also tied to having no hope.
May we turn to God, as David did, to find real and lasting hope. May we find ourselves in God’s word to build that hope even more.
So I close to with another Old Testament hero, one who is still an example of hope.
Job 11:18 NASB
Then you would trust, because there is hope; And you would look around and rest securely.
Job knew pain and trials. He also knew that God was his only hope.
May that be our thought and confession as well. God alone is our hope.
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