We Need Hope!
Here’s what I know. Everyone continually goes through considerable changes in their lives. People struggle financially, physically, socially, and relationally. And yet walk around acting like they have it all together.
If we are honest, we must face the fact that we don’t have it all together, and sometimes we are so busy pointing fingers at others that we forget we are a troubled-stressed-mess. This doesn’t sound like hope.
I want to ask you today to be honest with yourself. Do you have it together? Is your life perfect? Have you mastered the art of contentment and perfection in each of those private areas of your life?
I’m nowhere close. But I’m working on it. I think we all live in those places that haunt us because we can’t seem to overcome them.
I want to encourage you today. There is hope.
There is Hope!
The fact that everyone struggles is not hope. It is the reality. And if it’s true, how do we succeed in the struggle that continues to insert changes and stressors that cause us such confusion and discomfort?
I believe it is all about the standard set for our lives and how we approach that standard. Many people use values passed on to them from their family or friends and make decisions based on those values.
What values do you use when making small or significant choices?
I’m not saying those values are always wrong, but if they are not biblically based, they are less than perfect.
Before you stop reading, please give me a few more paragraphs of your time.
Where is the Hope?
Every decision we make somehow points back to our fundamental view of Scripture. One of the first verses our children learned in almost every church we served was 2 Timothy 3:16.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.
I don’t have enough room to explain it all today, but let me start by saying Scripture is profitable for teaching. That means we can count on it to be truthful, encouraging, and settled. Scripture can encourage you today. Maybe you’ve struggled with some of those significant changes in your life. Go to Scripture and be inspired.
Learn from God. He gave us the Bible to learn what we need to know to get us through what we need to go through in life. The significant change in our lives first begins from a teachable heart.
Do you have a teachable heart? Will you listen to God through His word today? Will you take a few minutes to read back through 2 Timothy 3:16 and understand the purpose of Scripture in your life?