Hope Written on Your Brow

All creation and mankind are in a state of utter despair, but God has not abandoned us, He has given us hope.

December’s Awakening, Day 17

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

 —Fyodor Dostoevsky

The word which God has written on the brow of every man is hope.

 —Victor Hugo

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV

            Since mankind’s loss of holiness in the Garden of Eden, our connection with God has been severed. Sin, pain, decay, and death, with a groaning creation filled with thorns and thistles have infiltrated God’s perfect and good creation. God has not rejected His perfect creation but has provided a way for redemption and renewal through the unblemished and perfect sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. God has not abandoned us, even though mankind had rejected Him.

            Although in this present state of life we must undergo trials, tribulations, and afflictions of every kind, this does not have to be our final state of being. We have the choice to exercise the hope that God has placed within us to search for more to this life. That hope is faith in our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, and it is freely offered to all who would come unto Him. We can be made perfect and holy again, with all creation joyfully singing. God has indeed written hope on the brow of every person—it’s His name, Jesus Christ.