Our Hope Is In Him

Our Hope is in Him


“I had nothing to live for and looks like nothings gonna come my way. So I’m just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away.”
"Looks like nothing's going to change, everything remains the same."

Those of a “certain age” will instantly recognise the lyrics of the great Otis Redding’s classic “Dock of the Bay”. If it comes on the radio most people will turn it up and start singing along - yet the lyrics are those of despair ! They describe why those who appear to have everything feel that life isn't worth living.

Despair is the absolute lack of hope - everything seems hopeless at that moment with nothing good on the horizon. Christians and non Christians alike can be attacked by feelings of despair. Satan wants us to believe that our situation is hopeless yet God calls us to have strong hope. He tells us to be of good courage! To take heart! To live boldly!  Not to give ground to the enemy, the world and its depressing, despairing message but rather to put our hope in the Lord! HE PROMISES TO STRENGTHEN OUR HEARTS !

Claire Boothe Luce an American playwright and congresswoman from Connecticut wrote, “There are no hopeless situations -there are only people who have grown hopeless about them”.
So the question is where can we find hope in a negative,nasty world where bad things happen to good people? The answer I firmly believe to that question is found in God’s word.

Psalm 25:2-5 says “In You I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one whose hope is in You will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. Show me your ways, O Lord teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are my God my Saviour and my hope is in you all day long”.
Can we take hold of this truth, believe and live it? No one whose hope is in Him will ever be put to shame.
In Psalm 31:24, we're encouraged to"Be strong and take heart all you who hope in the Lord”.
When your ultimate hope is in the Lord you can be strong in life. You don’t have to take a backseat to anyone. We can live victoriously in our hope in Christ.
Psalm 71:14-15 says, “But as for me, I will always have hope, I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure.”

So when things seem hopeless,if you have feelings of despair or loneliness ,be encouraged that the source of our hope Is found in God.