Without Hope

The biggest struggle of every life is the fight to hold onto hope. Satan's greatest weapon against us is to deceive us into thinking that all hope is gone. He wears us down until discouragement and despair overwhelm us. Expectation is the object of hope, and when our expectations become unreachable, or even seem to, we quickly fall into despair. Earthly hopes in people, family, church, or circumstances often disappoint, but the believer's true hope must be anchored in God, not in this world. We have many good examples to look to from the Word of God to help us in this struggle to hold onto hope. Faith in God and love for others restores hope, while self-pity and despair come from looking too low, and forgetting about God. Then we also have the "blessed hope" of Christ's presence, His coming again, and the certainty that God will always make a way.