Step #1-Establish Ultimate Hope

“I know that there is someone to defend me and that he lives! And in the end, he will stand here on earth and defend me.” Job 19:25 ERV

“Hope-expect and wish; be optimistic; intent with some possibility of fulfillment”

Many of us will go through difficult times in our lifetime. If you have not experienced it, brace yourself because it is coming. There are issues in life no matter how rich or poor we are. It does not matter if how healthy or sick we are, we are in equal footing in facing the real test in life. For the poor that has nothing to eat or nowhere to sleep, they are already of much need of a greater hope. So as the rich and the famous, although they have everything at their own disposal, they too has the same equal opportunity of any type of suffering. Even the super athletes with super human strength and stamina, they too suffer just as well physically or emotionally.

The truth is we will suffer in some form or manner as we progress in our short stay here on earth. Job’s story in the Bible is a one of a kind story ever told about pain, suffering, loss but in the end – triumph. When you get a chance, read the full story in your own time so that you may know the extent of his sufferings. He lost his possessions, lost his family and lost his health. What sort of things that you can imagine to do or think of when you experiences it all – the ultimate suffering.

#1. Hope that God will stretch out His hand to help you. This is the ultimate hope and the only true hope.

Never lose hope that there is someone out there trying to help you.

Hope is not something that is transferable from one person to another. I can influence you or tell you that “yeah, there is hope and that God one day will eventually pluck you out from your misery”. In a 911 distress call, the person at the call center always (per protocol) ends the conversation like this “Ma’am or sir, help is on its way, hang in there”. Although we received the message “loud and clear”, in our mind, we always say “are they really coming to help me”. When? How? For our own survival, we make a concrete decision to believe that help is coming our way even though our situation feels like or look like next to impossible. You have to have your own hope deep inside you. The Emergency Medical Team or the the Rescue Team might be coming but you don’t really know if they can really get to you.

There are situations like this that you know that even if there is an available help out there, some of you feels that they won’t be able to reach you and you start losing your ability to live or go on. Discouragement sits in and slowly like a dripping water from a leaky water tank, your hope is dramatically drained to zero.

When you reach to “zero hope”, please know that there is still one string in your parachute that you have not pulled yet – the hope that God never abandons His children.

Please, establish that hope in your heart. It is such an endless hope worth having.

http://bible.us/406/job.19.25.erv

Read Job’s Story
The Trial of Job
Job: The Hardest Lesson

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