Hope

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God...(1a)

No one whose hope is in You will ever be put to shame. (2)

"No one" - ah, this must surely include "me," as my hope is in God alone.

After many of years of hiding, cowering, internalizing, losing sight of my very being, I now know that it is only He who can and will provide for me, keep me, protect me.

What is it that I have "hope" of?... Oh, so very, very much:

- Resurrection
- Eternal life
- His mercy
- His grace
- Everlasting love
- His great and absolute power
- His soverignty
- His ability to turn a situation around
- His providental care

My "hope" is not one of "oh, I wish this would happen," or "I wish this would come true."

No, resolutely, it is a simple "knowing." He is with me.

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in You. (3)

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. (4)

Now shameless and protected, praising my Savior and my God... I raise my heart to the heavens:

Why so downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? (1)

Nay, I put my hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior (1) and I can for sure say, it does bring one an unexplainable, yet definate hope.

1. Psalm 42:5/6a; 42:11; 43:5
2. Psalm 25:3
3. Psalm 25:21
4. Psalm 62:5
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Hope
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by: seedsower deb

Lamp Put Aside

I got off track, simply put, because I put the Lamp aside.

It is "Thy Word which is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."

But I simply put it aside... why would I? I ask myself...

One day due to hurry, another day because of chaos, another because of this, another because of that.

Duly, my sight grew dim... it's as if darkness has enveloped me.

But God knows this.

"Why was this man born blind? did he or his parents sin? Neither.

...this happended so that the work of God would be shown in his life."

I would not dare compare my situation with that of being born blind,

As my "blindness" has come by my own hand, or lack thereof.

I can say, however, the work of God will be shown in my life.

I know He has a plan for me, one that is to prosper me, not harm me.
Plans to give me hope and a future.

I have physical eyes with which to see things around me,

But the eyes to the things of the spirit are dimmed,

Oh to see again.

He who is mighty can restore that sight.

His desire is for me to glorify Him.

Oh, I hear Him passing by...

Jesus, I rise with a cry, have mercy on me...

"What do you want Me to do for you?" He says...

Lord, I want to see again.

As to the blind man, to me, He mercifully replies "Receive your sight, your faith has healed you."