Set Free To Hope

I am going to be doing a series these next couple of weeks about how we are free and why we are free- free to hope, free to love, free to pray and free to live (really live) We are going to start with how we are free to hope.

Hope is something we always have but we become blind to things that bog us down that we can't see it. We can also place our hope in the wrong things. things that are temporary. For example, we can have hope in our job and become almost dependent on it to make us feel good and if we lose it unexpectedly then we feel we lost all hope. We place hope in money- that if we have enough it will give us our basic needs and more. Our hope is not in us and what we can do. Hope is only found in God and what He can do. That is why hope is all about. We don't have to do it alone or have all the answers.

Just this week, we had a tragedy stike us in Columbus. It is affected a whole community. A father killed his 2 young sons- only 8 and 6 before taking his only life. The same thing happened last year here in December when a dad killed his 2 girls 15 and 11 before taking his only like. On Sunday night when the wife/mother came home, she found her family dead- her husband and 2 little boys. He wrote a letter saying he wanted to protect the boys from the misery that he has lived with. This is how destructive depression and the feeling of hopelessness can be.

Hopelessness is just a feeling. There is always hope. I know what's like to be what seems a hopeless situation and I also know how to come out of it. In a way I am going through it through right now. I know I'll come through it victoriously and the fustrastion and even anger I have will one day really soon will go away- when I least except it to. I have faith that God is going to something big, something wonderful. I just have to keep going and cross the finish line on my part, give God the baton and let Him do the rest.

So, why can we have hope? We can have hope because God says He will never leave us or forsake us. We have hope in His abundant and obsessive love for us. We have hope in the Cross and the blood Jesus shed for us. We have hope in being His child. and being able to talk to him anytime of day about anything. I don't know what you are going through right now but God does. He desperately wants to your hand and comfort you. He feels every tear you cry and it makes Him sad, He loves you and know what you need and what you want. You are free to hope.