HUMANITY is utterly dependent on hope. We all derive hope from
somewhere. We all place our faith in something. Not all hope is healthy or
productive.
It can be difficult to discern whether the hope we hope upon is a hope
that will stack up at crunch time. One thing for sure, however, is once hope is
gone — I’m talking all hope — a new never more vibrant hope may finally be allowed
to make its long-awaited entrance. Requisite with surrender.
This can
only be explained as the hope of God — hope that is stripped of every scaffold
with which to attach false and failing hopes.
When we
lose something uniquely valuable in life it feels we’ve lost everything. But
there’s one thing we gain in losing it all. A fresh start. An unadulterated
hope. Courage to begin again. To recommence life in a way that God designed us
to live from the beginning. To hope in the only Source that can never
disappoint.
Some,
maybe many, of us will never truly believe in God until we’re desperate enough —
when we need to hope, finally we hope with complete abandon.
Hope, when to hope is all we have
left, because there is no other hope.
Back’s
against the wall stuff. Nothing left to attach vain hopes to. Nothing else
works. Only the true hope of Christ does. And it requires the fullest
surrender, not to men, but to God’s leading Spirit. Then, and only then, do we
realise that His Spirit is real, alive.
Hope, when to hope is all we have
left, because there is no other hope. Think about it like
this. We only grow beyond the gravitational pull of the forces that hold us in
old and sick patterns when we have the courage to get past dated trajectories.
The Blessed
Hope in Jesus Christ works. He heals and restores. But only if we let Him.
Hope works
when we have no hope left but to hope. Then we find such a hope is the only
true hope.
When we need
to hope, we hope!
Only as we’re
forced to relinquish a long list of false hopes do we then see the one True
Hope, which is all we’ll ever need.
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