My Hope!

Psa 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.


What do you hope for? You do have a hope even if it's a small one, right? Think about it for a few moments, or longer if you need to. We live with hope. Very few live without hope in their lives, very few. While some people might live with a lot of hope for many things, others can live life with just a few hopes. We hope for good things for our children, we hope for good things for ourselves, we hope for good health, we hope for nice weather, we hope for gifts, we hope for love, we hope for long life, we hope for many things over the course of our lives.


In reality the hope we need to have should be in one place because all the hope we place in temporal things can fade away. Hope we place in the eternal Lord Jesus Christ our Savior will never fade away- not now, and not ever.


While we hope for our children to be successful in life- not necessarily rich monetary wise- but in many ways- is that hope always something that will be realized? Unfortunately, no. While we hope for ourselves many times our hopes are dashed aren't they, over and over some would say. We sometimes get what we hope for but more often than not we don't.


Placing hope in *things* of this world is foolish IF we don't keep that hope checked by realizing that nothing is promised to us in this life- not good health, not happiness in worldly things, not human love, not wealth, not friendship, not loving family, not peace in worldly ways, not children, not intellect, not employment, and on and on. We are NOT promised this world or anything in this world. So many want others to believe they are promised good in this world.


We are promised hope in our Lord.
We are promised happiness in our Lord.
We are promised eternal life in our Lord.


Our riches are heavenly riches.
Our hopes are heavenly hopes.
Our happiness is a heavenly happiness.


Psa 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD


The Lord our God must be OUR hope first and foremost. Let's read a few more verses on hope--


Psa 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.


Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.


Lam 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.


1Th 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation


Tit 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began


Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ


Tit 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.


Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us


1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead


1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ


1Pe 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.


1Jn 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.


Hope in God.
The blessed hope.
Lively hope.


We really need this HOPE more than any other hope we could possibly desire.


Is your hope in Christ? Or are you placing your hope in things not eternal?


Christ our Hope!
Christ our Kingdom!
Christ our Love!
Christ our everything!


In His love, His grace!


Always.


Amen.