I’ve asked myself the question, “If I could relay one thing to people, what would I tell them?” I have considered this a good while now, I have walked far, met a lot of people, and witnessed many things, and I think God has finally settled a statement in my heart. The one thing I would tell them is –
There Is Hope
“There” is Hope
There “Is” Hope
There Is “Hope”
For those who despair that their lives are without
meaning and without purpose;
For those who dwell in a loneliness so terrible that
It has withered their hearts and bowed them to
The ground;
For those who hate because they have no recognition
Of the destiny available to all humanity;
For those who would squander their lives in self-pity,
And self-destruction because they have worn the
Disguise of this world so long they have become their disguise;
For those who don’t have a reason enough to comb their
Hair and can’t look themselves in the eye in the mirror;
“There” is Hope
There “Is” Hope
There Is “Hope”
Today –
I bring tidings of comfort and joy!
There Is Hope!
With my finger which aims, i point towards Jesus, saying “there”, meaning in Christ alone is hope and that He alone is the personification of hope. “Is” … always present tense, used in the sense that there is one and only one. It has a certain amount of direction to it, implying something or someone exists. Jesus IS. “Is” as in a statement of fact. Hope, the anticipation of becoming and overcoming, as in everyone everywhere anticipates that something is going to happen which will change their situation for the better. Christ alone is the true source and power of becoming and overcoming.
In Psalm13, David paints us a picture of the pain he was in. We all endure pain of one sort or another. i’ve never met someone who was NOT in pain, whether it is a prognosis of illness, a crashed relationship, or the loss of something or someone from their lives… these conditions easily cause us to feel lost and alone. In the moment, God can appear to be very distant.
As an example to us from Psalm 13, David calls out to God, saying, “Turn and answer me, O Lord my God!” He prays out of desperation, knowing that only the Lord can “restore the sparkle to [his] eyes” and hope to his heart. David points out the source of all hope. Somehow, mysteriously, talking to God plants a seed of hope, and we all know, these days people really, really need hope. Though it isn’t evident David’s circumstances have changed, in the midst of it all he calls to God and trusts who the Lord says He is. Somehow, mysteriously, the psalmists heart is lifted and his lips find praise and singing to break out of his downward spiral. God sent Moses repetitively before Pharaoh to do the impossible that Egypt and the world would know that the Lord is God and He is who He says He is, and sometimes i think maybe that is the basic problem of humanity… we don’t really believe God is who He says He is and that He will do what He says He’ll do.
Today, many stand at a tipping point. We can walk the downward road of despair, or we can go the upper road to the high places by turning to God. He is there, there is hope.
If you have survived but you’ve left your self-esteem behind you
And you have lost the road map back to where you should be;
If you feel frayed and torn, wounded and beaten, waylaid and destroyed by the intrusion of vicious circumstances;
If the twin sisters Mourning and Depression have come to visit at your house and now they won’t leave…
There Is Hope!
“If I could relay one thing to people, what would I tell them?” Yes… that’s what I would say. There Is Hope!