Hope Full

One becomes hopeless when his eyes are taken off Christ and focused inward on himself. One becomes hopeless when he looks at the chaos of the world without the prospect of redemption. The troubles of this life are too great for an individual to bear. In fact, I'm not sure we were meant to bear them at all. The weight is too heavy and must be bore by the shoulders of God. Whether it be the troubles of the day or the wars of the world - no individual can handle these things on their own, nor were they meant to.

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The human life, then, become about trust, faith, and perseverance.

Trust in God over and above self, institutions, governments, money, or anything we rely

upon for our sustainability that is in and of itself not sustainable.

Faith in that we are calling things that are not as though they are - believing in the unseen -

peace instead of war, love instead of hate, justice over injustice.

Perseverance in that we continue to live out the life of Christ in the midst of surrounding

death.

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To surrender to the evils of ourselves and the world destroys the flicker of light that represents hope - hope for our own lives and for those who depend on our light to see - for they would not know how to see through the darkness and tragedies of our world without the small light we boldly, yet frailly, carry.

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Therefore let us carry this light in faith that Christ will magnify it, that the darkness would flee, and all may find hope.