I look around my life everyday as
I am running errands or walking around the mall, I cant help but see the look
in the eyes of people whether young or old, on many faces the look is the same.
What is life about? Or Am I an accident?
If you were some cosmic accident,
then there would be no real reason for existing. If life were a random series
of events, the there would be no point to living. It’s would be every man for
themselves. If there was no life after death, then there would be no
hope.
Definition of Hope
To wish for something with
expectation of its fulfillment.
To have confidence; trust.
But the good news is that there
is a reason to hope. You are not an accident but a carefully planned creation
of the living God. I was one that did not grow up in the church and I remember
distinctly as a young 11 and 12 yr old as I prepared for bed thinking to
myself, “there’s got to be more to life than this.” Thank God He showed
me His love just a short time thereafter.
And now I have the privilege of
working with people on a weekly basis and from time to time I find a person
that wants to grab life by the horns and just believe. Believe in a hope that
is larger than them. These are the type that WANT TO HOPE. Life is
not a series of events. I want you to know, Life is your opportunity to live up
to everything that God has for you.
Some one once said, “I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS BUT I KNOW
WHO HOLDS THE FUTURE!”
That’s something we can all apply
in our lives everyday. The catch is we have to trust that our father in heaven
has a plan for our lives. God holds not just the future but your now.
I like that story about the boy
and his father who were planning a fishing trip for the next day. That evening
as the father was putting his son to bed, the boy hugged his father's neck and
said, "Daddy, thank you for tomorrow."
God is in full control and we
must trust our heavenly father even as this child did his father
Psalm 25:3
No one whose hope is
in you will ever be put to shame,
In this day in age, if we hope on
something other than God, our hope is lost. Our hope must be entrusted to
God. Hope breeds stamina. It helps us to give life another chance.
There was a Scientific experiment
that was conducted a while back. A group of behavioral Scientists put some Mice
in a tank of water, and observed them to see how long they would survive before
drowning.
The average time was 17 minutes.
Then, they repeated the
experiment, but this time they "rescued" the mice just before the
point of drowning, dried them off and returned them to their cages.... fed
them, and let them play for a few days, and repeated the drowning experiment.
This time, the average survival
time for these mice increased from 17 minutes to 36 hours!
The scientists explained that
phenomenon by pointing out that the second time around, the mice had HOPE. They
believed that they could survive this, because they had done so before.
One scientist said "They
were able to survive because they had been SAVED".
Where does your trust lie in
today? I hope that your attitude and prayer today is like the psalmist in Psalm
71:14 :
But as for me, I will always have
hope; I will praise you more and more.
