Who is your hope? It’s a funny thing to ask, because for many of us the answer lies in ourselves. If your honest thought was “well me really!”, “cause if I don’t do it; it won’t get done”. But the question does not imply that you are an optional answer. Hummmmm! (fingers on cheeks, eyes looking skyward)
Thus our hope must come from an external force in our life. So often are we stimulated by the things of this world that we naturally put our hope in things that are temporal. I love this one, “there is always tomorrow!” We say it as a coping mechanism to get through a really bad present day. But the statement itself places hope again in something temporal. Tomorrow only has 24 hours to it, it is limited. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of placing my hope in limited things, I want a hope that lasts forever! If you are with me, that only gives you one choice to place your hope in; God alone!
Yet it is hard to find that. It reminds me of the many times I was lost in the grocery store as a kid. The moment I realized I was alone, I panicked and “mister freak out” kid burst forth. Running from isle to isle I would franticly search for my parents never knowing that as I passed one isle my parents passed me in the opposite direction. Every time the only way I found them was to stop running. Lost, afraid and alone I compiled my decisions with many mistakes, because I kept running.
If you feel lost, alone, and full of fear – STOP YOUR RUNNING! Stop running from task to task and thing to thing, it’s only getting you farther away from your eternal hope! Stop and pray, stop and fast, stop and let God find you! Our God works best when those He seeks are already in a posture of surrender and humility.
“God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.” (Psalm 53:2)
Thus our hope must come from an external force in our life. So often are we stimulated by the things of this world that we naturally put our hope in things that are temporal. I love this one, “there is always tomorrow!” We say it as a coping mechanism to get through a really bad present day. But the statement itself places hope again in something temporal. Tomorrow only has 24 hours to it, it is limited. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of placing my hope in limited things, I want a hope that lasts forever! If you are with me, that only gives you one choice to place your hope in; God alone!
Yet it is hard to find that. It reminds me of the many times I was lost in the grocery store as a kid. The moment I realized I was alone, I panicked and “mister freak out” kid burst forth. Running from isle to isle I would franticly search for my parents never knowing that as I passed one isle my parents passed me in the opposite direction. Every time the only way I found them was to stop running. Lost, afraid and alone I compiled my decisions with many mistakes, because I kept running.
If you feel lost, alone, and full of fear – STOP YOUR RUNNING! Stop running from task to task and thing to thing, it’s only getting you farther away from your eternal hope! Stop and pray, stop and fast, stop and let God find you! Our God works best when those He seeks are already in a posture of surrender and humility.
“God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.” (Psalm 53:2)
