Without Hope?

The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
  -- Jeremiah 17:9

To read our verse for today, and many others in the Bible, might be the cause of us giving up all hope to ever be found righteous. And without righteousness there is no hope in us for a place in God's Heaven. With the heart deceiving us from within, and the enemy of our Lord deceiving us from without, what hope indeed would any of us have? God came down. Those living in darkness have seen a great light. God Himself sent His only begotten Son to give hope to the hopeless. The answer to the hopelessness of our deceitful heart and the world's deceitful prince is in the Son of God; Who is the way, the truth, and the life. Our way back to the Father comes through the Son.

And ceaselessly we say: My hope is in Him!

Bucky