I opened my Bible the other day and the pages fell open to Proverbs.
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."
Proverbs 13:12
This verse has always kinda bothered me. I mean, it's not MY fault when my hopes are disappointed!
Or is it? When your hope is in something that is unstable, they are almost guaranteed to be disappointed!
So where am I placing my hope?!
If you look up hope in the Bible, almost every single reference says "hope in God". Too many times though we look for hope in the wrong places. We look around at our options or try to see if something is possible. Only then will we dare to hope. But that hope is disappointing.But look at Abraham. The Bible says in Romans 4:18,19:
"He believed, even God... who calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might be the father of many nations."
Even when everything he knew with his natural senses screamed "IMPOSSIBLE", Abraham put his faith and hope in God and as a result witnessed a miracle!
