HUMANITY is utterly dependent on hope. We all derive it from somewhere. We all place our faith in something. Not all hope is healthy or productive.
It can be difficult to discern whether the hope we hope upon will stack up at crunch time. One thing for sure, however, is once it is gone - I'm talking all hope - a new never more vibrant hope may finally be allowed to make its long-awaited entrance. Requisite with surrender.
This can only be explained within God - hope that is stripped of every scaffold with which to attach false and failing hopes.
When we lose something uniquely valuable in life it feels we've lost everything. But there's one thing we gain in losing it all. A fresh start. An unadulterated trust. Courage to begin again. To recommence life in a way that God designed us to live from the beginning. To trust in the only Source that can never disappoint.
Some, maybe many, of us will never truly believe in God until we're desperate enough - when we need to hope, finally we trust with complete abandon.
Back's against the wall stuff. Nothing left to attach vain hopes to. Nothing else works. Only Christ does. And it requires the fullest surrender, not to men, but to God's leading Spirit. Then, and only then, do we realise that His Spirit is real, alive.
Think about it like this. We only grow beyond the gravitational pull of the forces that hold us in old and sick patterns when we have the courage to get past dated trajectories.
The Blessed Hope in Jesus Christ works. He heals and restores. But only if we let Him.
Only as we're forced to relinquish a long list of false hopes do we then see the one True Hope, which is all we'll ever need.
Steve Wickham holds Degrees in Science, Divinity, and Counselling. Steve writes at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com.au/ and http://tribework.blogspot.com.au/
By Steve Wickham
Article Source: True Hope Enters Only As False Hope Departs
It can be difficult to discern whether the hope we hope upon will stack up at crunch time. One thing for sure, however, is once it is gone - I'm talking all hope - a new never more vibrant hope may finally be allowed to make its long-awaited entrance. Requisite with surrender.
This can only be explained within God - hope that is stripped of every scaffold with which to attach false and failing hopes.
When we lose something uniquely valuable in life it feels we've lost everything. But there's one thing we gain in losing it all. A fresh start. An unadulterated trust. Courage to begin again. To recommence life in a way that God designed us to live from the beginning. To trust in the only Source that can never disappoint.
Some, maybe many, of us will never truly believe in God until we're desperate enough - when we need to hope, finally we trust with complete abandon.
Back's against the wall stuff. Nothing left to attach vain hopes to. Nothing else works. Only Christ does. And it requires the fullest surrender, not to men, but to God's leading Spirit. Then, and only then, do we realise that His Spirit is real, alive.
Think about it like this. We only grow beyond the gravitational pull of the forces that hold us in old and sick patterns when we have the courage to get past dated trajectories.
The Blessed Hope in Jesus Christ works. He heals and restores. But only if we let Him.
Only as we're forced to relinquish a long list of false hopes do we then see the one True Hope, which is all we'll ever need.
Steve Wickham holds Degrees in Science, Divinity, and Counselling. Steve writes at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com.au/ and http://tribework.blogspot.com.au/
By Steve Wickham
Article Source: True Hope Enters Only As False Hope Departs