Hope(less)

Hopeless: feeling or causing despair about something.

Psalm 42:5 ESV

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation

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Paul may give us the best example of hope in Romans chapter 8.  Whenever I encounter hopelessness in new believers and even among experienced Christians and there is doubt about their salvation, I usually direct them to Romans 8:24-25 where Paul tells the believer, “For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience” because “If God is for us, who can be against us” (Rom 8:31)?  If God is on your side, how sure is that hope!   I believe that every Christian has gone through or will go through a dark night of the soul where deep doubts and fears flare up but extinguishing those fears is as simple as staying in the Bible faithfully, day by day.