Trust In God Alone
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. -- Hebrews 6:19a
Hope can be so cruel. I know. You think I’ve lost my mind. Hope is full of promise and optimism. It is a light shining toward a better day. Sometimes.
Other times it is a tease, nothing but a cruel hoax. It is that dangling carrot that is tossed out of reach at the last minute. It breaks your heart to know that something you once never expected, then thought possible, is now once again out of reach. It would have been far better to never have hoped in the first place.
It is a possibility of a cure offered to a dying person. It is the possibility of a job advancement where once there wasn’t. It is the possibility of obtaining something where no chance existed. Hope. Where once none existed.
The cruelty comes when the claim was never true. The acceptance once felt by the dying person has now turned into despair. The contentment once experienced by the worker has now become brokenness. The peace that once ruled has become emptiness. False hope does that.
My Bible defines hope as desiring something with confident expectation of its fulfillment. We hope in the Lord. We trust in Jesus. We believe God. That is true hope at its finest. But hoping for things that involve people…well, that’s just counting on disappointment and disaster.
Put your hope in the anchor that is steady and firm. Place your faith on the rock that never waivers. Trust God, the only One who will never let you down.
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