Wednesday, 10 July 2013

That we might have hope


For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. – Romans 15.4

From the very beginning of written history man has looked to books and other sources to find instruction, direction, and hope.

Mankind continues in that same vein today. People look everywhere for a reason to hope in what is a seemingly hopeless world. Far too often hopelessness wins out and people just give up on life. They never do find the answer so they live in misery, or choose a tragic option.

But the Bible claims that there is a source for hope. ‘That the patience and comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.’

There really is hope. It doesn’t come though wealth or resources or position or any man made philosophy. Hope comes only through the study of God word, waiting on God, and finding comfort to carry on.

The problem with hope is that people are looking in all the wrong places to find it.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

God's Living Word is with us always, until the very end of the age. So keep lots of oil in your lamp, storing up lots of his words in your heart. He will always be with you, no matter how weak or strong you perceive yourself or others to be. I am weak, but God is Almighty and loves me.