Have you ever felt utterly hopeless? Maybe even today you face a strugglethat has sapped you of all expectation.

  Hope seems a rare commodity these days. Our society has gotten rid ofGod, banning Him from schools by banning the Bible and prayer and seeking to doso in every other possible area. Meanwhile, the gloom grows deeper and thedarkness more impenetrable. Hopelessness settles in about us. In increasingnumbers people flee from this world of hopelessness in whatever ways theycan—fleeing into a world of drugs, into a world of alcohol, into a world ofescapism of some sort. Some even escape their hopelessness in the ultimateway—by committing suicide.

  But as Christians, we can have hope based on the objective standard ofGod’s Word. Through Christ, we’ve been born again unto a living hope. What is that hope? That we shall live in God’s presence forever as His eternalchildren. When the galaxies have long ago burned out, we shall still live with Christ. When this world gets us down, we have the hope that this life is justthe slightest, quickest movement of the shuttle in the eternity which liesbefore us. Because of that truth, our source of hope will never run dry.

  We can have this hope only when we answer God’s call to come to Him andlive our lives with and for Him, trusting in Jesus Christ as our Savior. Do youhave this hope in the midst of a hopeless world? If you build your hope onanything other than Christ, His blood, and His righteousness, you hope in vain.Trust in the Lord, and you will have a glorious, everlasting hope, one that will carry you from now into eternity.