CHRIST, OUR HOPE

My Sisters and Brothers, we are living in some difficult times. If it’s not one thing, it is another. We are witnessing trouble on every hand. Life can take it toil, leaving us brokenhearted, dismayed and misunderstood. Read 2 Cor. 4: 8-12

Where can we find hope in a world that seems to be hopeless? The daily news can sometimes cause depression in a believer if it continuously played out in the mind.

Hope means to desire something and expect that it will happen or be attained.

Hope means trust, expecting the fulfillment of a promise

Hope is a feeling or an anticipation that things will somehow get better.

Hope sustains God’s people in exile and Job on his ash heap, and hope can sustain us today.

Serotonin is to depression as hope is to life more abundantly or to healing.

Though he slays me, yet will I hope in him. Job 13: 15 (NIV)

Because even if he kills me, I will keep on hoping. (Message Bible)

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42:5 (NIV)

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. Psalm 62: 5 (NIV

There is no hope outside of God. God is our HOPE.

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. Psalm 130: 7

Isaiah 40: 28-31(NIV)

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

We have hope because of what happened one Friday and early one Sunday in morning in Jerusalem over 2,000 years ago when a Galilean preacher, prophet, king, savior, deliverer, and healer did for us what no one else could do. He died and rose again. Glory to God! Our mamas couldn’t do it, our brothers, our sisters, nor could our daddies do it – only Jesus. The world seems hopeless, wars, disease and disaster everywhere but GOD IS STILL SITTING ON THE THRONE – SO WE HAVE HOPE.

We need to have hope for our daily bread!!!! Our hope is Jesus.

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col. 1: 27:

Let hope abide in you my brothers and sisters. Keep Hope Alive, Look to Jesus!

Let the church say, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!

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