Hope Has a Price

"We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield."

(Psalms 33:20 NIV-G/K)

Hope is not cheap there is a price. Hope is not a simple wish, but a firm belief of the positive to come. Daily hope is the simple motivation for daily living. People broke down on their luck wake up morning after morning hoping today will be a better day. People reporting to a job they do not love in hope that their pay check will come. If you did not have hope, a positive expectancy of your life you feel like giving up. With out hope you fail to see the great meaning of your life. Your life is precious and hope is not dead. Hope is alive and well. Hope comes from God. God is your help as in he will be there for you thick and thin. He is your shield meaning he will protect you from dangers to come. This awesome hope is revealed in the awesome love God has toward us shown in His son, Jesus. 

With so much despair, depression and death around we need hope. You may feel hopeless because you feel unimportant. Jesus came just for you. He came to show you that God has something better than what this world can offer. His love that will not fail. This love is a help when you feel unloved you can see How God loved the world He gave his only begotten Son(John 3:16). God gives you his very best because you are His very best. There is no one else like you and God made you that way. You are a beautiful person who God has made. Will you allow God to use you and show you your full potential and give the world hope seeing God use you. Have ever seen and elderly person need help picking up what they dropped? Have you seen a child need help tying their shoes? Have you seen a person down on their last dime looking for an answer? There has to be someone there who can help? Can it be you?

You can show that it may cost you now to build a better tomorrow but hope cost. Jesus paid the ultimate price by giving his life for the world to have a better tomorrow. What are you willing to sacrifice today in a hope of tomorrow. God's grace saved you not for you to be selfish but to show His grace to some one else. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast (Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV)." 

Just take the time to open the windows of your ears to hear the cries around you. Open your eyes to see the peril around you. These people need your help. You can give some one hope and assist their life. You can share the love of Jesus you have inside. If you do not know Jesus or are unsure know "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."(Romans 10:9-10 NIV-G/K) You can confess Jesus Lord of your life and accept God's Son as your Lord and see Him change you and fill you with hope.

"And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."

(Romans 5:5 NIV-G/K)

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