We don't lose hope, we give it up.....

Sometimes you get to the place where hope no longer exists. Any circumstance that might produce hope, that might give a glimmer of hopeful expectation for you, instead breeds a cynicism that dictates there must be some other reason for the good that might otherwise make you feel hopeful. Too many times your hopes have been dashed, your desires for better once again dissolved into nothingness. Hopeless. It is a devastating destination.

However, there is a basic flaw in this approach to life. Hope. Is. A. Choice. We CHOOSE to let circumstances dictate our attitudes toward life. We choose to focus on details that will encourage us toward hope, or we choose to focus and submit to details that murder what hope we may have and plunge us into the muck of discouragement and despondency. We don't lose hope. We give it up. Yes. And I want my hope back. I suffer hopelessness because I place my hope foolishly. I hope in things and people who will consistently fail me. rob me of my hope, and lead me into hopelessness and despair.

What then, if I am to choose wisely, are my choices? Not circumstances, not others, not even myself. All will eventually let me down, lead me astray, and disillusion me. This is not a multiple choice question. There is only one answer: God...... He is hope. His steadfast love gives us hope. He will never fail us. (That does not mean we will get everything we want.) But because He is trustworthy, we can depend on the fact that there is good ahead for us, regardless of our circumstances. There is purpose in life, no matter how the past wants to drag us back there. There is reason to move forward no matter how far back I have fallen....

There is reason to hope, no matter how many times we have been disappointed. In Him is hope.......choose wisely.....