Having hope is like breathing oxygen. You can't live without it.
The world in which we live gives both hope and despair. Both are available. You can choose to live in despair and you can choose to live in hope. The choice is in your hands.
Most of us would choose hope. Who really wants despair? Not many. But unfortunately we live as if we have chosen despair. We run ourselves into the ground with work. We hold on to bitterness and anger towards others. We have addictions to occupy our thoughts. It all seems pretty oblique. Why would we take this road in our lives? It doesn't make sense.
But when you have hope you have energy, emotional freedom and confidence that things will get better.
I was reading in John 8 about a woman who was caught in adultery. By the way, you would have to be in despair to commit adultery. Hope gives you joy for a better day. She had little hope. While in the arms of another man, she was caught and taken to Jesus. How would Jesus deal with her? Tell her that she is going to get what she deserves or offer her hope of a better day?
Read about it John 8:1-11 or click to view http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A1-11&version=NIV (Click back arrow on web browser to return)
She was offered a chance to start over. To press the re-do button on life. That is the hope that Jesus offers. He offers a second chance. A chance to change the direction of your life. What she did was wrong and she would need to make things right. But at least she can start over.
Do you need to start over in life? That is what we are going to talk about next week. We will talk about how God provides an opportunity to start over.
As you close: Thank God for hope; thank him that life can get better than this. Thank him for his birth and life here on planet earth.
God bless!
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