WHERE DID OUR HOPE GO/OUR HOPE RESTS IN GOD

WITNESS




1-12-13




WHERE DID OUR HOPE GO








I road
The public bus today


Saw all the blank stares
Saw the long and desolate faces
Saw the look of hopelessness
In so so many of us


I ask myself
I ask you


WHERE DID OUR HOPE GO


Perhaps you are
Putting your hope
In all the wrong things


Hope is NOT visible
It is the looking
As to what is to come
It is KNOWING that
There is something better


“For in this hope we were saved
But hope that is seen
Is no hope at all
Who hopes for
What he already has
But if we hope
For what we do not yet have
We WAIT for it patiently” Romans 8:24


Perhaps you have a chronic illness
No known cause---no known cure
God forbid
Maybe even a terminal illness


Perhaps you are looking
For a scientific miracle
I wish for one for you too


Just remember
All miracles begin and end with
THE POWER of God


WHERE DID OUR HOPE GO


“Put your hope in God
For I will yet praise him
My Savior and my God” Psalm 42:5


Perhaps you have
Serious financial difficulties
Can’t feed your family
Or even yourself


PUT YOUR HOPE IN GOD


“Command those who are rich
In this present world
Not to be arrogant
Not to put their hope in wealth
Which is so uncertain
Bu to put their hope in God” 1 Timothy 6:17


Where did our hope go
Perhaps we are putting it in
All the wrong places


PUT YOUR HOPE IN GOD


People have failed you
Broken relationships abound
A broken family
An estranged parent or child


PUT YOUR HOPE IN GOD


“Not only so
But we also rejoice in our sufferings
Because we know that suffering produces perseverance
Perseverance---character
And character---hope


And hope DOES NOT DISAPPOINT US
Because God has pored out his love
Into our hearts
By the Holy Spirit
Whom he has given us” Romans 5:3-5


WHERE DID OR HOPE GO


Nowhere---maybe it has been
Just a little bit replaced


PUT YOUR HOPE IN GOD


Robert P. Wallman
8-22-11


Ps WITNESS 1-12-13





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