HOPE

HOPE!

Job 7:6

6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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e all like to compare ourselves to Job when we are having trouble and trials but most of us never approach his kind of difficulty. We think we feel his pain but it is measured to us in much smaller portions. If we seriously compare ours to his we must acknowledge that we, at least, have hope. Job felt himself hopeless.

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he word for “hope” above is the tiqvah and it literally means “ a cord.” The idea is that one is clinging to the last thread attached to anything of substance! Ah! That is easily understood. The hymn writer, Edward Mote in 1834, wrote “On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.” Yes, we understand what it is to tie a knot on the end of our rope and hang on.

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he believer’s hope is tied to the Solid Rock as we see in Heb 6:17-19 “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.

Dear Lord, thank you that, in spite of all the trouble I see, I have a sure and blessed hope tied to the Solid Rock. AMEN