"Let All That You Do Be Done With Love"
- 1 Cor. 16:14
Hope
Hope is one of the most important words you will find in the bible. Without it, there can be no faith because you need hope to reach for the things God has promised you. Even though you cannot physically touch it or see it yet, you can still reach for it. It is that act of reaching for it,which shows God you do have faith. Hebrews 1:1 says:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
There will be days when we want to toss hope right out the window. Proverbs 13:12 says that “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” You know those days where you want to stay in bed and pull the covers over your eyes because your heart is sick. But fight that urge to do so. If we do not let go of hope, the rest of Proverbs 13:12 tells us, “when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.”
In spite of all the things that happened to Job, he stood strong and fought to keep his hope; yes, he wrestled with the thought of giving up hope, but he didn’t, and of course, you know at the end of Job’s testings, he received double for his trouble. So, do not let the devil talk you out of giving up your hope.
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