Good morning! What is my hope? These days we ask "what do you hope for?" We look toward a house/farm/ranch in the country, away from the rush of cities and our own hectic daily life. We hope for retirement and that we have enough money saved up to actually retire. We hope for a new car, or a boat, or a ... You can see that "hope" has become different for each of us, but still similar. The world hopes for the things of the world. We can easily get caught up in these kinds of hopes. "If only I can save enough", or have that house "over there", or "if I could get a car that lasts past the final payment", and others. Jesus calls us to place our trust in Him; in Him there is no possibility of disappointment as there is with all of the world's hopes. That house or farm could become a money pit that burdens you financially, that dream job may have a boss that makes your life miserable; the things of this world do not satisfy and are always prone to disappoint us. In examining our lives, it is always good and quite interesting to see what we may be putting our hopes in before God. Can a dream or hope be a graven image? Certainly it can be just as bad if we do not trust God first in our lives.
God bless you this fine day!
Bucky
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