There Is Always Hope

May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 GWT) At the end of World War II, an American sub came back to Newport News, Va., to dock. As it came into port, something terrible happened, and the sub began to sink. The Coast Guard was immediately dispatched to go out and save the crew. Divers swam down to the hull of the submarine to discover the problem. As the divers got close to the sub, they heard one inventive sailor using a hammer to tap on the hull and ask in Morse Code, Is there hope? Thats a fundamental question of life Is life worth living?Its asked every day by thousands of people in thousands of different ways: As you sit in the doctors office awaiting test results When waiting for application result When dealing with monthly income When we are rejected

We can go 40 days without food and three days without water. W can go eight minutes without air. But you cant go a single second without hope. Its an essential part of life. When hope is gone, life is over. Because hope is in such short supply in our society today, people will fall for all kinds of scams. They trust in false hopes, like psychic hotlines, palm readings, astrology, fake healers, and quack cures. Inevitably, those false hopes disappoint. Nothing disappoints worse than false hope. So where do I turn to find real hope? The Bible says to turn to God. Romans 15:13 says, May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit (GWT). God is the only source of hope thatll never disappoint. When we place our faith in him, he provides joy, peace, and hope that overflows. At the end of the book of Ezekiel, God says, I am Jehovah Shammah. In Hebrew that means, I am the God who is always there. God is always there. Hes in your past, in your present, and in your future. Hes in the good places. Hes in the evil places. He is everywhere. And you are never, ever alone. And where God is, hope is.