From Where is our Hope?

From Where is our Hope?

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 62
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

From  where is our hope? From where is assured expectation? On what can we wait and be sure we'll receive succor and support?

Economies are failing. Cultures are crumbling. Friends and family with the best of intentions disappoints. Those without good intention can only set for others their baits on the traps they prepared. Traders would only promise at a cost, a cost which may be more than you can afford. So from where comes hope?

The righteous expectations can only come from the Lord if it won't be cut off. Only the Lord lives forever to make intercession for us and the hope He doesn't give shouldn't be expected from any man.

When He gives hope, such hopes can be realized even through the most unqualified of men.

When we have God on our side, we need not despair we can hope in Him.

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 42
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Hopelessness is the mother of despair, hope is what gives birth to faith and boldness. The anointing to heal the brokenhearted is one that imparts hope. Hope is a life giver, hopelessness is death.

Depression and suicide are siblings from their mother hopelessness, and the hopelessness of governments to handle people's hopelessness is legalizing assisted suicide. Hopelessness is the trident of hell and the sickle of death. The precursor of every death both physical and spiritual...

Yet the eternally hopeless would fear death still even if such sees a future on earth as impossible due to hopelessness.  The dilemma of the hopeless...

So where does hope come from...?

Hope comes from God through His word.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 15
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

The comfort of scriptures gives hope. When we find it difficult to have comfort and hope in the scriptures through unbelief, the hopelessness that results would be terminal! Such often comes with full force to kill with justifications.

Many in unbelief would want to replace scriptures with all sorts of things. Entertainment, drinks, drugs and so on...the more intellectual would add a philosophical angle to it: motivational materials which may not be based on any authority, at least not based on the authority of the Holy Scriptures.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 31
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

So there's no hope for hope in indulgences that give people temporary comfort based on their forgetfulness of their misery.

Nor in words that only placate without power to back up the promises it carry.

Our only sure hope is in the Word of God. When we encounter scriptures, whatever promises they carry must be used to deal with our despair, turn our hopelessness inside out and find hope and lasting comfort for us and for others who might be in the same situation.

That's one basic thing the scriptures do for us...in this world where hope is hard to find and people find it hard to believe what's even in their own selfies...the scriptures give us a perfect picture of what our future should be if we'll keep walking with God and His Spirit...

Keep your Bible open and feed on its contents in meditation and be comforted through the hope God communicates through it.

Let His Word be your righteous expectation and through faith your expectations shall not be cut off...

Happy New Week of Hope!

It is possible!