I was driving home from the hospital when I let some of my questions out.  "How do you hope when you can see reality?"   Everyday since then I've groped for the answer.  I've wondered what hope is made of? If there really is an end to hope?  Is there ever a time when you just plane run out of hope? Some times it feels like the light at the end of the tunnel is getting dimer in stead of brighter.  

    Then this morning I opened my Bible I started reading Psalm 71(esv).  "In you, oh Lord, do I take refuge...Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come...for you are my rock and my fortress...Rescue me, O my God..." I turned the page, "for you, are my hope ..."

I stopped.  I jerked up till my face was 2 inches away from the page and I stared.  I read it out loud.  I looked up, seeing nothing, just trying to get my mind around it.  So, simple, so true, so undeniable and completely unarguable.  How did I not know this before?? 

     I kept reading, I thought my revelation for the day was done. Then my eyes glanced over another verse. "But I will hope continually."  It was an invitation...it was like God looked at me and went, "Well I showed you hope, now are you going to accept it?? If you believe it, then are you going to use it?? Now that you know that there is hope are you going to hope??"  Words seemed no match to what i wanted to say, all I could do was repeat the words in the verse, "I will hope continually." No matter what happens in the future I will hope...because He is my hope.  Facts and reality can stare me in the face, "But I will hope continually."   I have no hope...except Jesus!!  

I thought this song pretty much sums it up. 

 

Hope in Front of Me 

Danny Gokey

I've been running through rain that I thought would never end

Trying to make it on faith in a struggle against the wind

I've seen the dark and the broken places

But I know in my soul no matter how bad it gets, I'll be alright

There's hope in front of me

There's a light I still see it

There's a hand still holding me

Even when I don't believe it

I might be down but I'm not dead

There's better days still up ahead

Even after all I've seen, there's hope in front of me

There's a place at the end of the storm you'll finally find

Where the hurt and the tears and the pain all fall behind

You open up your eyes and up ahead there's a big sun shining

Right then and there you realize, you'll be alright

There's hope in front of me

There's a light I still see it

There's a hand still holding me

Even when I don't believe it

I might be down but I'm not dead

There's better days still up ahead

Even after all I've seen, there's hope in front of me

There's a hope still burning

I can feel it rising through the night

And my world's still turning

I can feel Your love here by my side

You're my hope

You're the light I still see it

Your hands are holding me

Even when I don't believe

Oh, I've got to believe, I‘ve got to believe

I still have hope

You are my hope