I talk to many people who are looking for hope. Hopelessness about financial, educational, career, or relational factors. Those especially relating to children, marriage and those they love. And hope deals with the future.
Read Philippians 1:6 ... confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Remember God is working on you and them. We are all "Works In Progress."
Divine love finds a way of being optimistic. God isn't finished with you either.
Death isn't the end of life, but a glorious beginning for the Christian.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
God is directing history toward a climatic day. A purging moment. This earth will be changed, refined, and cleansed of all moral imperfections.
What kind of people should we be...
2 Peter 3:11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
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Fall 2001 - National poll in Michigan. Only 1 in 5 Americans feel hopeful about the future. (80%)
Links to other resources:
Quotes
Audio Message of Hope
Hope For Life
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