HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS......

Where do we find “hope?” There are so many people living in this worldly world who see “this” as all there is. For them, there is only heartache and heartbreak….brokenness from family disfunction, financial struggle, illness, and the finality of death. The way of escape is through a knife, gun, pills, jumping….just looking for a way to get relief from their pain and released to non-existence they feel awaits them. For them, there is no tomorrow, no eternity, either good nor bad. There is just a sea of nothingness, an oblivious extinction of any form of life. I cannot fathom living in such a hopeless state day in and day out believing that the “now” is it and that there will never be anything better. As a believer, a follower of the Way, I draw on my faith, my hope, every day. Without it, I would be stumbling through randomness without vision of the better that is to come. How deeply sad!

For those, we must share our hope. Isn’t that where it all lands….where the reality of our future lies? Sure, there are rules and guides to keep us on the right path, but what are they without hope? We will never bring the lost to hope without showing them Who our hope comes from. Teach Jesus, show Jesus….make Him the focus. After all, He is our hope..…”the hope that is in you,” 1 Peter 3:15. Our hope is found in the truth of the gospel. God has gifted us with a way of salvation through His Son to the world. Jesus suffered as a willing sacrifice for sin, He overcame death, and now offers a share in His triumph to everyone who will accept it. This is our good news, the gospel, our hope because it is a gift….nothing that we can earn by penance or by self-improvement.


Jesus is our hope for today and the hope for all of our tomorrows. We can testify to His grace from Acts 20:24, to His peace from Ephesians 6:15, and to His everlasting love from John 3:16. That is hope….everlasting, never-ending hope. Hope that will see us through our todays and will carry us through our tomorrows. This is the hope that we must share. 

 Share His hope with the hopeless. 

Amen! †

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