Hope

Many people are searching for something. Something bigger/outside/more powerful than themselves. This search is undertaken to find this other and normally ends up finding something in ourselves. Our god looks like us, suits our needs and does what we want how we want it done.

Where is the hope in that?
If God does things like me, or I am part of god in a universal way then I am doomed. I can not even control my thoughts sometimes. I worry, stress, think I am better than I am, think I am worse than I am and everything in between. My hope cannot come from within me.

My hope comes from a personal God. God, who cares so deeply about having a relationship with me that he came in the flesh to show me the way to engage with others and with God. Jesus Christ lived out the way to follow God and showed us how to have relationship. He died as a criminal for this. By the power of God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus was raised from the dead declaring that God has the power over death. I have hope that through this act of a personal and caring God I have life now and forever.
This kind of hope is not a wish or a prayer but a solid hope that I can depend on.
Hope for all is a possibility when it is found in Christ and not us.