It's time for some hope and faith

It's time for some hope and faith in America...and it is going to begin with me.

Hope is the belief in a positive outcome without evidence to support that belief. It is also one the three gifts from God and includes Love, Hope and Faith. I was always eternally hopeful. I looked for the bright side, found the silver linings and routinely brought people out of depression. I smiled when there was no reason to do so. I pumped people up in the face of advesity.

Somewhere along the line, I lost some of that feeling of hope. Maybe life's many lessons made me more cynical. It can happen as time goes by. Things go bad and you learn lessons...sometimes more then once and some less painful than others. As wisdom increases, you begin to pedict outcomes with greater and greater accuracy. Case in point:  My son. I am always letting my son know the benefit of my wisdom...often whether he wants my counsel or not. But what happened to my eternal feeling of hope? Has it been replaced by negativeism? Do people really want to be told the possible down side of future events? I think deep down the answer is a resounding NO. People surround themselves with positive people. Right or wrong, it makes them feel good. My goal is to restore my hope.   

I have come to know that only God can restore hope. When you give all your fears over to God, it is immediately replaced by hope. Through faith...honest faith...you have the one true place for those fears to be released. Once you hand them over to God, fears fade away and do not occupy your mind anymore...the Holy Spirit does. Hope does.

You might agree with this definition, but I think "wisdom" is the ability to predict possible outcomes based on related and unrelated information and conditions at hand. Life's lessons can certainly add wisdom for those who learn something from the lesson.

The Bible is full of lessons. The depth of those lessons is a subject for etermal pursuit and understanding. One lesson is that through faith, your problems are far smaller than God's power. I am living evidence that God can totally change your conditions and outlook with a single phone call, chance meeting, or putting the right people in your life at the rght time. I am reminded of His power over and over. On my last dollar, God reversed my life. When I thought there was no way, He made a way.

Turn your problems over to God. Turn our country over to God. Turn your life over to God. He will not let you down. Find the hope He has in store for you.

I no longer worry about the future. Find Him and He will change your life.