Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” — John 16:33
You want nothing more than a cry to get you out of the depths. There is no way for you up out of the pit but to cry to God, and that will bring a rope down. Nay, rather, the rope is there. Your grasping the rope and your cry are one.
Alexander MacLaren
Depths! What depths man can be cast into! Depths of poverty, stripped bare of all earthly possessions and dear friends. Depths of sorrow, with plans all ripped to pieces by the storms of adversity. Depths of mental darkness, with nothing but surrounding sorrow and despair. Depths of sin, depths to which there seems to be no bottom. What can we do when in such depths? Cry! Cry unto the Lord!
Herbert Lockyer
The Size of Your Hope
God’s Word says, “Put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption” — Psalm 130:7
The size of your God
is the size of your hope.
We wear only rags of hope
when we put our hope
in small gods:
in plans, in people, in ourselves.
For the day always comes
when small gods
meet their match,
when life, or death,
green with consequence,
beats small gods into submission
then gloats, “puny god.”
Not so God Almighty!
We wear royal robes of hope
when we put our hope
in the Living God:
in His infinite love and redemption.
Already we’ve seen
His light and love
conquer wayward hearts.
And the day will come
when He returns and
beats all evil into submission.
Devotional poem © 2016 Michael Himick. Used with permission.
Put Your Hope in the Lord
God’s Word says, “Put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption” — Psalm 130:7
Fashion your life after the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t live your life after the old pattern. . . . Seeing you are “born again,” live like it.
Henrietta Mears
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