WHERE DID OUR HOPE GO

 

 

 

 

 

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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