Hope

Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best. Hope precedes faith. Faith comes when we place our hope in God and believe that He will do it. It is important to know what we specifically hope for.

Hebrews 11.1: Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

This word was given to me today. There are indeed many things in my heart. So many things which I want to do. Have I stopped hoping? Or have I place my hope in things other than God Himself? Or I have refrained myself from hoping because I was afraid of disappointments? Recently, I have felt like running away. My commitments are overwelming me. My dreams are fading away. My achievements = zero. I am gradually losing myself.

Psalms 42.5: Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my saviour and my God.

Isaiah 40:30-31: Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Let this new year be a year of hope for me. Let this year be a year where I place my hope in no other than God Himself. Let me begin this year by hoping. Because God has promised that those who hope in Him will not grow weary.

Romans 8:24-25: Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.