“Hope. Gotta Have It.”
“Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around. (The Message)
Dear
family of friends,
The
conference audience perked up and started to carefully listen with attentive
ears. The speaker was talking about hope, and I could tell people wanted it. We
like to hear about hope. It does something to our soul, especially when it
appears that there is not much of it surrounding us.
He went
on to say how he spent the past election reading about American prisoners, held
during the Vietnam War. Many survived. Many did not. Those who held onto the
idea that they were getting out by the next holiday, or by the end of the year,
or the next special event that came and then went, didn’t make it. With their
hope based on a specific time, which then ended with a disappointing result,
they gave up. They perished.
The ones
who had the longer perspective, who held onto something more substantial and
eternal, saw the release finish line. Their hope was not based on an event. It
was founded on the belief that no matter what, they were someday getting out -
to once again be home with their family.
Scripture
says that “hope deferred makes the heart sick.” You have known it. I have known
it. We are waiting and wanting for that “something” or “someone” to come along
and rescue us. To deliver us. Just to change our current life situation, and take
us to the grass on the other side, or be the hot air balloon that will fly us
home from Oz.
Many
times when I put my expectancy in a temporal being – be it an event or a
person, and it doesn’t meet my expectations, I feel the loss in my soul. It is
like a piece of me is left on the pathway, and it will take a little more next
time to hope for something more.
When I
put my trust and hope in the One I have come to know, Who can and will meet the
desires of my heart, I am not disappointed. For He is Faithful and True. What
He says He will do. He just does. I can count on Him.
Today I again
ask Him to keep my heart resting in His goodness and His eternal purposes, so
that any disappointments, which are yet to come while in this temporal world we
live in, may be overcome with certain hope. I am committed to keeping my eyes
fixed on Jesus (Yeshua), the Author and Finisher of my faith.
He is our
Solid Foundation. He is our Eternal Hope. May you too know that certainty in
your daily walk.
Ahava to
my family of friends,
Steve
Martin
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Ahava Love Letter #82 “Hope”
©2013
Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord 2013
(10/26/13 Saturday at 7:45 am in Charlotte, NC)
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