Cullen Durbin
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the word hope. The word is defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Or I also like the second definition, a feeling of trust. When looking at the world today it’s so easy to lose hope. To lose faith. I pray for the people who do not know Jesus and wonder, how do they make it without Him?
I see our world and how it is so desperate for hope right now. People are looking to anything to feel that theirs is light at the end of the tunnel. I have recently started watching a television series that has an entire theme of hope. Not surprisingly, the debut episode was the highest-rated series premiere in the network’s history. It is so obvious this is what the world is searching for. As believers, we have the answer for them.
Romans 8:24 says that “In this hope we are saved”. We have the answer to the world’s problems. To what they are so desperately seeking. I believe that as we are consecrating together, fasting, and praying, the Lord is wanting to show us new ways He is moving. Jesus said, “Ask and you shall receive”. We always hope for the world to get better. For there to be change. Sometimes we try to change it ourselves, putting our own filter on how we would do things that we have forgotten to ask the Lord what is in His heart.
The world has created a “me-first’ society, where we can do everything ourselves, independently – even independently from God. I’ve been wondering, what’s so wrong about hoping for something more? To look up to the sky for the answers we are hoping for. He’s all around us and always will be, I think we sometimes forget that. These 28 days are a way for us to get back into the heart with the Father. To consecrate not just as a church, but with Him. To go deeper with Him. To ask what hope looks like to God. To pause…and look up.
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