Hope In God

Bible reading: Jeremiah 17:5 – 8

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1)

Principle 3: Consciously choose to commit all of my life and will to Christ care and control.

“Happy are the meek.” (Matthew 5:8)

We may have learned a long time ago that hoping only brings disappointment. Our hopes were dashed. The promises we believed were broken. We were left feeling like fools for ever hoping the 1st place. But perhaps we were devastated because we put our hope in the wrong place.

“The Lord says: Cursed is a man who puts his trust in mortal man and turns his heart away from God. He is like a stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future; he lives on the self – encrusted plains in the barren wilderness; good times passing by forever. But blessed is the man who trust in the Lord, and has made the Lord his hope and confidence. He is like a tree planted along a river bank, with its roots reaching down into the water – a tree not bothered by the heat nor worried by the long months of drought. Its leaves stay green and it goes right on producing all of its luscious fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:5 – 8)

Turning our lives over to God includes placing our hope in him, even if people have disappointed us. When replace all of our hope in other people, is like expecting a tree to flourish in a barren desert. Our thirst continues, and they are unable to satisfy our deepest needs. Placing our hope in God changes everything. Jesus said “The water I give them… Becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them forever with eternal life” (John 4:14). When our hope is in God, and our lives in his care, we are sustained when we otherwise would be devastated.

If we put our trust and hope in God, we will never be let down.

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