Offer Hope To The Hopeless

As we continue in our series DROPS OF GRACE, we’ve looked at the Developing Relationships, Reaching the world with Beautiful Feet. Now we look at how we can OFFER HOPE.
The kind of hope we’re talking about here isn’t the kind of hope the world offers. It’s the hope that God alone gives to a broken and fractured world through Jesus. In order to be able to offer this kind of hope, we first need to have experienced that kind of hope ourselves. AA, Celebrate Recovery, the New Life Program at Yakima Union Gospel Mission (or any other addiction ministry), Weight Watchers, Divorce Care, etc., all are run by those who have struggled themselves with (fill in the blank). Hebrews 11:1 defines faith this way: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” We can’t see hope, but in faith we are given hope. Abraham is listed in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11:8-10. Paul says it this way in Roman 4:18 “In hope, he (Abraham) believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, ‘So shall your offspring be’.” We who have received great hope ourselves, offer hope to those who need hope in the world around us.