Hope in the Darkness

So many times we hear different stories about people who come through very bleak points in their life with a new outlook and hope for a different future.

Through this current partial government shutdown, which is affecting many, many people I know (to include myself), I have words of hope. We WILL get through this. We will be stronger as individuals because we will know how to get by with less in a world of more…More…MORE.

1 Chronicles 29:14-16 (NASB)

¹⁴ “But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You. ¹⁵ For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy name, it is from Your hand, and all is Yours.

Everything we have or will ever have comes from the Lord, and the Lord provides for His children through everything. We are sojourners, just temporary residents here on earth.

Psalm 31:23-24 (NASB)

²³ O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!
The Lord preserves the faithful
And fully recompenses the proud doer.
²⁴ Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord.

Our hope comes from the Lord… stay strong through the trials you face and never take your eyes off of Jesus.

Revelation 1:1-3 (NASB)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, ² who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. ³ Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near.

The “time is near” for Jesus to return. Nope, I don’t know the date or the time. I do know God has promised us the return of His Son to take us to our eternal Home. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Some things are going to get far worse than the most awful horror movie we’ve heard of. There is still good to find in the most awful of times. Look for it. Share it. BE the good for someone else.

And wait patiently.