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Holding On To Hope

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

If troubling thoughts are coming your way then it may be that your hope has been deferred. What do we mean by deferred? The word deferred mean delayed, or temporarily held back.  Is hope deferred the same as disconnected or destroyed?  NO! When it comes to losing hope this would be the way we would feel. We feel like there is no future and the present is futile. "All hope is gone." is a very discouraging and devastating statement.

Someone may say, "There is always hope." But you do not see it. You do not understand it. And so you would tend to agree All hope is gone.

Hope is connected to Faith. Faith to believe God is essential for Life. Without faith we have nothing. Without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:6) When we have faith results can be seen immediately. Hope comes with faith. The two cannot be separated. And hope and faith together make a man different. They will make a man strong.

The first few verses of Psalm one speak about a man who is like this. I have known some men like this, and I want to be a man like this. When I sort of see my hope delayed, deferred or diminished I begin to doubt sometimes. And doubt my friend with dry up this tree.

Psalm 1:1-3 (ESV)
Ps 1  Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2  but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3  He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

NOTE that the promise is in his season. Not when you demand it or beg for it but when God Sends it. This is the Hope part.

Without hope we are hurting. Without hope we are going to listen to every voice we hear except God. God is the Giver of hope. And our hope is connected to our faith. If you have lost hope in something. Ask God for faith as this is what you need.

Rodent Rodeo

What a crazy day. People going all out to see a small rodent emerge from his burrow to either run back in because he has seen his shadow or come out if he does not. The whole idea does not make good sense. If the weather is good then he will see his shadow, but if it is bad then he will not. For most of the country today He will not see a shadow as he will have to crawl out in the snow. It has been a record winter with major snows here in Atlanta and all across the country.

I question why do we need the ground hog anymore? We have Al Gore. Surely Al Gore is smarter than a Ground Hog. (I wonder if I could make a game show on TV with that name?) I went to the the creator of the inter-net's web site at www.algore.com and here is a quote from his journal.

“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”   Al Gore

So there you have it Al Gore has predicted snow because of global warming. And It makes just as much sense as the all the other Rodent Predictions. As always a representative of the media was there to ask a local ground hog what he thought of Al Gore's prediction and while his words are not recorded here is his photo.