hope?

If you set your heart right, and put out your hands to Him, and if you put away the sin that is in your hand, do not let wrong-doing be in your tents. Then you will be able to lift up your face without sin. You would be strong and not afraid. For you would forget your trouble, remembering it as waters that have passed by. Your life would be brighter than noon. Darkness would be like the morning. Then you would trust, because there is hope. You would look around and rest and be safe. You would lie down and no one would make you afraid. Many would ask for your favor. But the eyes of the sinful will waste away. There will be no way for them to get away. And their hope is to breathe their last.

- Job 11:13-20 (NLV)

 

Remember Job?

He had it all, and lost nearly everything in a single day.

His friend Zophar thought that all he needed to do is repent of his sin and Job’s pain would go away.

Job may have felt abandoned, he even argues with his friends, his faith was surely tested, but he never lost his faith.

And God never left his side.

Job dealt with devastating loss, excruciating pain, there were times when he was frustrated with God and even shared his frustration and his doubts with his wife and his friends.

But in the end, Job was blessed because his hope was in God.

No matter what we are dealing with, we must keep our faith, we must have hope. 

God’s word is true, he will never leave us or forsake us, and that my friends, gives us hope.

 

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