Hopeful
I woke up this morning full of hope, but then I thought about all the reasons we have to be hopeless. The world is filled with hopelessness and everything we see, hear, or feel seems to push us further into the abyss. How can we have hope in a hopeless world? Well, I’ve got good news for you if you are one of those who struggles to find a ray of hope in the darkness we all have to live in.
If you have placed your faith in God, your hope is in Christ Jesus. Here are a few verses which should be a great encouragement to you:
1 John 5:13-14 says, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may KNOW that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 says, “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
Ephesians 2:8-10 says: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
If your hope is in God, you have good reason to have hope for today and for the future. If you place your hope in yourself, other people, money, your job, or things, then you are setting yourself up for disappointment. In Christ we have hope. He is our light and our salvation. We simply have to believe in Him, trust in Him, and obey Him. That is the reason I have hope every day in this crazy world we live in. I know that this is not my home and that I am just passing through, but I want to do my best and be a good steward of whatever God has entrusted to me. I want His light to shine through me so that others will understand the love of Christ. I am far from perfect, but I have peace in knowing that God loves me totally, He is for me, and He is with me through it all. That is what the world needs desperately…hope.
Shalom!
Daniel Skognes
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