Where Is My Hope?
“And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?” (Job 17:15)
Today’s Morsel: Why does it seem that so many Christians are becoming so hopeless. Are you one of them who feel as though you have lost your hope? Job asked: “What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?” (Job 6:11). Job was starting to feel as though he did not have the inner strength to face the challenges and trials he was facing. And he started to feel hopeless. When Jezebel sent word to Elijah that she as going to kill him, he scanned the battlefield of life, and realized that she had killed the prophets, and that he was no better than they were. And so he ran for his life, and he started to feel hopeless, too. You can’t lose your hope in Christ when you are facing situations and trials in your life. Paul said: “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8:24-27) Where is your hope? When Job reconsidered the situation, he said: Is not my help in me? Hope is where it’s always been. Within you. You haven’t lost it. You just need to stir up the gift that is in you.
Sing: I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore, very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more. But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing cry from the waters lifted me, now safe am I.
Love lifted me! Love lifted me! When nothing else could help, love lifted me. Love lifted me, love lifted me, when nothing else could help, love lifted me.
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