How To Regain Hope!
"My days are swifter than a
weaver’s shuttle, and are
spent without
hope."
Job 7: 6
The word hope occurs sixteen
times in the
book of Job and most of the references are
about how Job lost hope during his
multiple tragedies.
He said, “What strength do I have, that I should
hope?” (Job 6:11) And he said, “He breaks me
down on every side, and I am gone; my hope
He has uprooted like a tree”
(Job 19:10).
Any of us can lose hope when we’re having
difficulties and not sure what God is doing in
our lives. We can lose hope because others
have mistreated us or even because of our
own mistakes.
When we’re feeling sorry for ourselves and
sinking into discouragement, we’re letting the
biblical quality of hope erode in our minds.
If this is true for you, read in the first chapter
of 1 Peter about our “living hope” that comes
from God’s abundant mercy (1:3), about the
importance of resting our hope fully on God’s
grace (1:13), and about projecting our hope
forward in anticipation of Christ’s return (1:21).
"Where there is no hope in the future,
there
is no power in the present."
John Maxwell
