Tuesday 25 June 2019

Love gives hope

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. – 1 Corinthians 13.7

Love gives hope. Isn’t that a wonderful thought? We need to check out our love for others and see if our love for them gives them hope in their lives. Love doesn’t discourage or let down or disappoint. Love doesn’t rain on other people’s parades.

Instead love lifts us and encourages. It provides for hope for the future. When we feel alone and we feel like there is no hope love gives hope.

That’s how God’s love is for the world. In a world of hopelessness and bad news and doom and gloom God provides hope. To a whole that is lost in darkness and sin God’s love provides hope for today, hope for the future, and hope for all eternity.

No matter what trials we face, no matter how great the unknown is, no matter how impossible our situation seems love brings hope. No matter how bad it seems, at least we know we are loved, and there is no greater hope than that.

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