I want to share today's teaching from Andrew Womack's devotional "Every Day With Jesus":
God’s Love Hopes
Hopes all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7
Hopelessness is a terrible thing. God’s Word says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). Lack of hope is behind most, if not all, of the self-destruction we see in the lives of people today. Those who don’t have a strong faith in the future throw today away without any consideration of the consequences. The destructive habits of people are rooted in despair or hopelessness. Jesus used the fool who said, “Let’s eat, drink, and be merry” (Luke 12:19) as an example of someone without vision for his future. Those who don’t live with one eye on the future are headed for disaster.
Why is it that most of society is without hope? It’s because God’s love is the source of true hope, and there’s a genuine famine in the world today of the truth of God’s love for us. On the whole, religion tells us of God’s holiness and our relative unworthiness, but the true love of God is not a reality in the hearts of most people—even most Christian people. Luck and fate don’t generate hope. Only knowing a personal, loving God is working all things for our good (Romans 8:28) gives us true and lasting hope. God’s kind of love hopes all things.
God has a perfect plan for your life. Regardless of where you are now—no matter how far off the track you may have strayed—God has a perfect course plotted for you to where you’re supposed to be. (Jeremiah 29:11) He loves you in spite of what you have or haven’t done. As you believe this today, hope will spring up in your heart.
The ONLY place to find powerful and lasting HOPE, is in HIS presence! That's why we are encouraged to love the Lord our God with everything within us! You cannot maintain an intimate fellowship with someone you do not spend time with. The MOST important person for you and I to spend time with is JESUS! He, of ALL people, truly has our best interests at heart. Make sure that you begin everyday by acknowledging His presence with in you, and then purpose to get to know something new about Him every day! Of Jesus alone it can be said without reservation, "To know Him, is to love Him"! Here is Hillsong Worship with "All My Hope":
Shalom in Him!
