“Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.”
Psalm 119:49
It’s been said we can live 40 days without food, four days without water, and four minutes without air, but only four seconds without hope. “Hope is like the sun which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us” (Samuel Smiles, 1812-1904). God’s Word is our source of hope. “May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word” (Psalm 119:74). “I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope” (Psalm 130:5). “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Romans 15:4).
Billy Graham once was asked how, with all the evil in the world, he could be optimistic about the future. He replied, “I’ve read the final chapter of the book.” What confidence!
Our hope rests on the Bible’s truth that Christ has won the victory. “No eye has seen, nor ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Therein is our hope!
Billy Graham once was asked how, with all the evil in the world, he could be optimistic about the future. He replied, “I’ve read the final chapter of the book.” What confidence!
Our hope rests on the Bible’s truth that Christ has won the victory. “No eye has seen, nor ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Therein is our hope!
Scripture Focus
Psalm 119:49-56
Insight
Thank God for His hope-filled Word. “How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,/ Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!” (R. Keen, 1787)
Bible In A Year
- Esther 9-10
- Psalm 42
- Luke 5
