Hope

“I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble. And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.”
-Philippians 4: 12-14, 19-20

Christ gives us hope. There is so much despair, loss, loneliness in the world and our own hearts. We feel empty and want to feel full again. So we our lives with junk hoping to feel that satisfaction. We fill ourselves with sugary chocolate and salty chips. Thinking the non-sustainable will fill us as we lick chocolate off our fingers. It makes us happy and full for a little bit, but again we feel the emptiness- even heavier this time. We knew the junk was a copout, but it looked to satisfy. We are desperate for food to fill us, our mouths are quenching for water. Not the physical substance, but the bread of life and the everlasting water. He has given us a right relationship with our Father, a reason to really live, and a hope in heaven where every tear will be wiped away. We taste and see. We taste and we live- really live. We taste and are satisfied. Even through the trials and circumstances we not only know who we are, but Whose we are. And to Him we pray- “to You be glory forever and ever.”

“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”
-Psalm 63:1

“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
-Psalm 34:8