Hope Is the Invincible Overcomer

Are you just surviving or are you thriving? Hope sourced in Him will make the difference.

December’s Awakening, Day 18

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.  

 —G. K. Chesterton

God and His promises are the reason for our hope. When we embrace this hope, it has a dramatic effect on our daily lives. Hope gives us the ability to get through our days, to persevere.

 —Randy Frazee, “Believe: Living the Story of the Bible to Become Like Jesus”

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV

            We live distraught lives in desperate times in a disdainful world. Each day brings new challenges and trouble of its own. How can we possibly make it through the day and into the next? How can we ever overcome the hand that has been dealt to us by this world? When will we ever be able to keep our heads above the waters of the raging sea and set foot on firm, dry ground? The answer is simply—we do not know.

            But regardless of that answer, and despite all our circumstances, we have access to the most powerful motivator and encourager in the universe to spurn us on to greatness—it’s called hope. Sourced in Him, hope gives us the ability to see past our difficulties and turn them into possibilities. Hope turns setbacks into opportunities, failures into victories, despondency into optimism, and our sorrow and pain into peace and joy. Only hope can do that. Only hope in Him.