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There has been a lot of talk about “hope” lately. It started with the comment from First Lady Michelle Obama to Oprah Winfrey: "We feel the difference now, see now. We are feeling what not having hope feels like." She told Oprah Winfrey this in an interview, a clip of which aired on CBS recently. "Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept, and Barack didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes." She went on to say: "He and I and so many believe that. What else do you have if you don't have hope?" The First Lady added, "What do you give your kids if you can't give them hope?" Yes, the Obamas and many others did suffer a loss in the election results, but is that a reason to lose hope?

Let our hearts be well and let our minds be well, because we are filled with hope in God!

There are others coming back with comments that for the first time since Donald Trump was elected, they now have hope. Yes, they won the election, and I am sure excitement prevails, but is that a reason to have hope? Should our hope be in a man?

In another clip I saw on YouTube, a man was talking about that word again: “hope.” He has a ministry of going into prisons and trying to offer hope to traumatized inmates who have just entered into the prison system. The message he is trying to give them is hope in God. There lies the key! Men who have every reason to lose hope are being told that their hope is in God!

Did you know that having no hope can make you sick? Numerous studies have been documented to prove that angry emotions like withholding forgiveness, along with feelings of jealousy and hatred can take years off your life. Proverbs 13:12 states thathope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

So what is hope? Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Both sides from the election are placing their hope in the wrong thing instead of God. 

Michelle Obama raised some valid questions, one of which was: "What do you give your kids if you can't give them hope?" The answer to First Lady Obama’s question is: You point them to God! God is the answer; not men, nor things. But God, who is Eternal!

Our President-elect Donald Trump is human, and he will let those people down who now have tremendous hope in him. Even though men will always at some point let us down, God will never let us down!

Even if we are going through a heartbreak, sickness, a setback; even if we are entering a prison with walls or a prison in our mind, God is our hope, no matter what we are going through.

In Hebrew 11:1 it says, “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see" (New Living Translation). First Lady Obama is right about her concern when she asks, “What else do you have if you don't have hope?” The answer is that we have no hope if it is misplaced on men and other things and not on God. “Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save” (Psalm 146:3, New International Version), and, “Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God” (Psalm 146:5).  

Let our hearts be well and let our minds be well, because we are filled with hope in God! There is no need to have a sick heart when we have God as our hope.

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  • Janet Treadway

    Thanks Kathy

  • KARS

    Your welcome Janet.

  • Matt. Travis

    Thanks,Ms. Treadway, I am sorry but i have trying to reset my password almost an hour thru. Extreme difficulty caused by old injuries and illnesses which cause extreme neck pains an sometimes uncontrollable twitches in my wrists and hands. But anyway thanks so much for the article its like God told you what I needed to hear or see more than anything else. It is as if nobody else but God and maybe you believes what i am trying to tell them. I was baptized in 2008 and it has been a very tough road ever since. Both physically and mentally every step of the the way. I am trying not feel sorry for myself because a lot of people have it a lot tougher than I. But i will keep praying and try to study more. Thanks for your time.

  • Janet Treadway

    Matthew thank you so much. I am so sorry you are going through so much. I cannot imagine. The most wonderful thing is God sees how hard you are trying. It is hard not to feel sorry for yourself when you are in pain but I know God understands. Will pray for you that God will take away the pain. Hang in there as God sees and will honor you!

  • KARS

    Well put Janet and God's scriptures can help for it is God speaking to us. One thing I noticed over the years is it is hard for someone to forgive self and others. This must be prayed for. To ask God our Father to teach us how to forgive others so the ill feelings within will stop giving us a sick heart which in time leads to health problems.
    Thank you for your article.
    Have a wonderful day.

  • Janet Treadway

    Thank you so much Kathy and well said.

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