2016 has been very... (insert whatever and how many adjectives you want)
Many of those who started the year won't finish it and many who didn't start it will live to see another year.
The political, financial, personal, professional and emotional landscapes for most as 2017 looms may not look promising and at the very least daunting.
But hope...
Hope is, in my opinion, as necessary to life as air. Hopelessness is a deep pit that can swallow you whole.
When our hope is built on shifting, sinking sand it is very easy for us to lose it.
But..
God is still God. The sun still rises and sets. Jesus is still risen from the dead. So therefore I will always have hope because money, people, things, leaders, bosses, jobs, empires, nations pass away but inspite of our best efforts to destroy and eradicate God from our world HE STILL LIVES and HIS PROMISES are still TRUE.
He has survived kings and queens, floods, Disasters, World Wars. He is here and has been here and will always be here; Yesterday, Today, and Forever.
He is here in 2016 and He will be here in 2017 and all the years after that. So while things seem uncertain. Take heart that God is and always will be! He is certain. He always fulfills His promises.
He will take care of my family and I. I may not know what that looks like but I know that it will happen because God promised that He will NEVER leave me nor forsake me (Hebrews 13:5; Deuteronomy 31:6-8; Joshua 1:5). Because I have NEVER seen the righteous forsaken or his children hungry (Psalm 37:25-26). Because although we might stumble we will NOT fall (Psalm 37:23-24).
Place your hope and faith in Him for
Many of those who started the year won't finish it and many who didn't start it will live to see another year.
The political, financial, personal, professional and emotional landscapes for most as 2017 looms may not look promising and at the very least daunting.
But hope...
Hope is, in my opinion, as necessary to life as air. Hopelessness is a deep pit that can swallow you whole.
When our hope is built on shifting, sinking sand it is very easy for us to lose it.
But..
MY hope is built on nothing less than Jesus Blood and Righteousness...
God is still God. The sun still rises and sets. Jesus is still risen from the dead. So therefore I will always have hope because money, people, things, leaders, bosses, jobs, empires, nations pass away but inspite of our best efforts to destroy and eradicate God from our world HE STILL LIVES and HIS PROMISES are still TRUE.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
He has survived kings and queens, floods, Disasters, World Wars. He is here and has been here and will always be here; Yesterday, Today, and Forever.
He is here in 2016 and He will be here in 2017 and all the years after that. So while things seem uncertain. Take heart that God is and always will be! He is certain. He always fulfills His promises.
He will take care of my family and I. I may not know what that looks like but I know that it will happen because God promised that He will NEVER leave me nor forsake me (Hebrews 13:5; Deuteronomy 31:6-8; Joshua 1:5). Because I have NEVER seen the righteous forsaken or his children hungry (Psalm 37:25-26). Because although we might stumble we will NOT fall (Psalm 37:23-24).
Place your hope and faith in Him for
*On Christ, the Solid Rock I stand,
ALL other ground is sinking sand, ALL other ground is sinking sand.
The Unlikely Missionary
DHW
*Solid Rock by Edward Mote is one of my favorite hymns
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