April 17, 2024
Do you ever battle cynicism? Cynicism says, “Well, things have always been this way, they’ll never get any better.” It’s a negativity that looks to our past painful experiences and assumes our future experiences will also be painful.
That’s not hope.
Hope says that in spite of how our past has been, God is involved in writing a new story with our lives. He is all about making things new.
I love how author Sara Hagerty describes the battle between cynicism and hope.
She says, “I will not talk myself out of hope, [in spite of] all my reasons for being ‘wise’ and ‘measured’ in my responses to the not-yets in my life. Because when I choose hope, when I choose to engage in that awkward intimacy of believing that He might say no while asking expectantly that He say yes, He gets the most beautiful part of me.”
Give God the most beautiful part of yourself, by hoping with expectancy.
Remember, choose hope today.
Beautifully said!!