Hope

Yesterday, I was watching Batman Begins, which is a really good movie, and it kept talking about hope. The city had been overrun with thugs and bad guys and many of the people had given up. Many of the cops, judges, and other people in power had given in to the powerful criminals. Then, along comes Batman and brings hope, people had something to be hopeful of...too often in the past 5-6 years have I heard about how our world is going to pot...how things are going downhill and that it "must be the end times". While I agree that the world is a place full of sin, I am sick and tired of people complaining about their surroundings and sitting and doing nothing about it. Someone just this week was talking to me about the whole using Jesus name in prayer in the military. I don't agree with it either...but if you are going to complain and grumble and give us the latest end time forecast...for goodness sake...do something productive. I believe that the church needs a restored sense of hope...the church needs a new "Batman" in the 21st century. We need to realize that one day...soon or not...every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord! AND, until that time...we must be dealers in hope and love rather than sour, spewing words that bring down every one around us... Jeremiah 29:11 says that the Lord has plans for us, plans to prosper us and to give us a HOPE and a future!!! Hows your hope doing?

We have the only living God among all of the religions of the world...may he restore any and all hope that you have lost on your journey of life.


Good Day.