Keep Hope Alive!

Hope is an amazing attribute. There's a song that actually states that hope is hard to kill.

In the face of adversity, challenges, defeat, and setbacks, hope still has some way of hanging in there and staying alive. Even when every signal is screaming that failure is imminent, hope still flickers and dares to believe that winning is still possible.

Often we choose to give up. It's not that we've lost hope that we can achieve our goals, we just choose to go with the overwhelming "evidence" that's stacked against it. At times it's simpler to just give in than to keep fighting against the odds.

Yet some of the greatest triumphs occur in the midst of those hope-crushing scenarios. Abraham was long past his prime, yet he still believed God and received a son in his old age. The Israelites dared to believe that they could defeat the city of Jericho and its native giants, and their battle cry to the heavens caused the city's walls to fall. Hannah grabbed on to the word of the priest daring to believe that God would grant her a son, and was able to conceive after years of barrenness.

What are you facing that is trying to kill your hope? What situation is currently crushing down on your belief?

Don't give in to what it looks like! Don't give up because it seems impossible! You can win! You can overcome! You have the Lord God Almighty on your side. Nothing can stand in your way.

Verse of the Day: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31