All You Who Hope In The Lord

Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart,
All you who hope in the LORD. Psalm 31:24

Hope begins way back in the book of Ruth where we find our heroine Naomi being, uh, kind of hopeless. I was hoping for a better example to start off with. It seems though that her hope was for a husband in her old age. Hmm, you just never want to give up hope when it comes to old age, the Lord seems to have made a specialty of reviving the elderly back in the day, and He certainly hasn't changed since then.

As a child of the King, you and I are also a part of the Church, the Bride of Christ, and in this we have hope for a husband too. The Church has been around for a while, but we must never think that we are too old. Jesus in His faithfulness will never look aside to choose another. He died to save us, what more could He offer for another?

In our Lord Jesus is our hope. If you cannot understand hope, then perhaps you have none and need to believe in Him. Hebrews eleventy-one tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for, therefore the first step to having hope is to have faith in Him. Since our hope is for something we do not yet have, it makes sense to grab the substance of it by faith.

And then, in the midst of a shaking and quaking world, God gave us a promise of courage and strength to all of us who hope in the Lord. Courage in the face of a fear-mongering world is something we could all use today. Strength of heart overcomes a great many fears, and the source is Him: the Holy One of God.

Grace and mercy to you who hope in the Lord!
Bucky