Where are you finding hope for the future of your family?  Are you encouraged by the performance of our leaders, sacrificing, wisely choosing those determined avenues leading to prosperity, honor and security?  Is there safety in your things, your treasures, maybe hope is found in your double digit annual returns?  Do you look into the eyes of your children and find assurance for America or the world?  Does their resilience and confident grasp of the solutions to life’s dilemma provide you bastion from the apparent chaotic, global environment?  Is your safety found in your own ability to overcome, maybe your ebullient capacity to deal with the great issues confronting humanity; poverty, pestilence, cancer and war?  If you are finding the basis for your hope in all these things why then do you have any need for God?

Have you read the Book of Revelation?  And if not, how do you know how God’s Plan turns out?  Did you know that reading of this book promises the reader blessings?  One of those blessings is hope.  Hope in the most talked about event in the Bible, Old Testament and New, the Second Coming of Christ our Lord.  Do you understand that we will live together with God in the City of “New Jerusalem” that He brings to Earth upon its remaking?  Did you know that Jesus will rule with an Iron Rod, never again allowing the wickedness of humanity to decay our lives?  Do you take hope in the fact that we will never experience war again, no disease and no fear as the lion lives peacefully with the lamb?  Do you know that we will be given glorified bodies that never grow old, get sick or die?  Why when our hope is supposed to be in Jesus would Pastors refuse or avoid teaching the Book of Revelation?  Perhaps they wish for you to place your hope in them.  Isn’t this vanity, foolishness and a recipe for failure when we have already established that hope may not be found in the people, idols or things of this world?

Humanity, has no hope in science as we continue to find better ways to kill each other or release powers over which we have no governing capacity.  Humanity has no hope in leaders who continue to demonstrate their selfish motivations to leave a historical legacy proclaiming their own greatness.  Humanity has no hope in gold as the richest among us still dies at the end of a short lived life.  We were meant to give our children hope, not the other way around, we cannot find safety in living vicariously through children who share not our views, philosophies or policies.  There is no hope but Jesus.  We cannot continue to deny the realities of this life, placing false hope in the men and women who have gotten into the our present circumstances to suddenly find it in their hearts to reverse course.  In fact, that course would lead us back to the only solution, a humble return to our roots firmly planted in the righteousness of God.  We have finally grown a generation of children who do not know God.  Doesn’t that sound strangely familiar?  Oh, yes, that is what God said would happen when we depart from Him.  Unfortunately He also told us of the results of that abandonment and we are seeing those impacts clearly running rampant throughout our once blessed nation.

If you want hope cry out to God in Jesus’ Name.  Humble yourselves, Christians, and pray to God, repenting of your sins against God and He will hear our voices in Heaven and turn His face back to this country healing this land.  Hope and peace are things of God, found through faith in the things we cannot prove and have not yet seen.  For hope by its nature requires an unsubstantiated belief that things will improve.  How do you account to an unbeliever the reason for your hope that things will get better?  Interesting question to ask yourself.  Especially, as in our world there is no current supporting evidence that things are or will improve.  If you have placed your hope in things other than God you will eventually have to abandon that hope to this lack of empirical evidence.

Find hope in Jesus.  He will make a way where there is no path.  He will lead us through the dark times and the troubles.  My hope does not depend on me or circumstance but upon the faithfulness of God where I will never be let down.  In Jesus’ Name.