Hope from God's Word and Greg Lucas

Biblical truth on hope is a valuable commodity. Greg Lucas gives some of that and more in his blog posting this week. I'm saving a link here because I know I'll need to come back to it later. Maybe you need it today.

http://sheepdogger.blogspot.com/2012/03/there-is-hope.html

Here is an excerpt:

We’ve all been there. We are fathers and mothers and men and women and children who have walked through this valley. We know this darkness well.

We also know the only light that can shatter this darkness is the light of the gospel. And so for us, the “If we had known...” has turned into “We now know...”. And because we know, we will proclaim the hope of the gospel to these desperate, hurting, and often hope-less families.

If you are reading this today, I want you to know that there is hope. No matter how dark it may seem--there is hope. No matter what you have done--there is hope. No matter how unknown your future may be, there is a gracious God that has gone before you to prepare the way. He stands with outstretched arms proclaiming through the cross of His Son, "there is abundant hope waiting for you!"

Those of us who have this hope have an obligation to share it with others. Similarly, when we receive comfort from God we are enabled to pass on comfort to others who need it. As the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.