You are a Hope Carrier

Today's blog post is contributed by David Trotta. I always look forward to the weekly post from David. It is always a blessing and today's is no exception!

 

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12)

It’s that season again.  No, not the holiday season.  Something much less fun – the flu season.

At the prompting of my doctor, I had my flu shot this year.  I’m told the flu shot can significantly reduce the possibility of catching the flu, so I’ll trade a small prick in the arm to a knock-down-drag-it-out fight with the flu anytime.

There’s another sickness going around the world today.  This sickness attacks the heart.  It’s called hopelessness and it’s running rampant on the earth.

With all the depressing news around us, it’s easy to feel void of hope.

Among other things, threats of terrorism, fears of another financial meltdown, growing unrest and violence in the world, and constant attacks on God’s institution of marriage all chip away at our hope for a bright future.

And the more we focus on the all the negative news, our hearts give in to feelings of fear, worry and despair.  In other words, a sick heart.

Then, to try and cure our sick heart, we look for hope in all the wrong places, which leads to further hopelessness.

But God has the real antidote – His son Jesus.  As we learned earlier this week, He is the only source of true hope.  We can be confident in the fulfillment of all His promises.

And, as Christ followers with Jesus dwelling in us, we are carriers of that antidote.

There are too many sick hearts out there without hope.  They just need a hope carrier (us) to point them to the source of true hope – Jesus.

Lord, fill us with hope so we can extravagantly give it away to a world starving for hope.  Help us to see, think, and speak hope.  Make us contagious so we spread hope wherever we go.