Happy Monday! I can’t believe we are nearing the end of April. Friends, I think everyone I know has experienced some challenges in the last year. Some days it is hard to have faith.
I share a tip with my students throughout the term to help them get through their challenges, “take one day at a time.”
I confess, this was not an easy process. I tend to spend my today worrying about tomorrow. But faith is our cornerstone.
1 Peter 5:7 says, “cast all of your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
This scripture resonates with me. It is a daily sometimes hourly decision to cast all of our cares on the Lord! I tend to cast and then take them back.
However, in order to enjoy today, we can’t worry about tomorrow! It is important to live by faith one day at a time.
Matthew 6:34 states, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
I pray you have a blessed week! Have faith!
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Happy Monday! What does hope mean to you? I admit I struggle with keeping my hope up when all around us it feels like things are falling apart.
Just when you think you have it all together, something comes along and rocks you to the core. How do we continue to have hope when we are going through the most terrible circumstances?
When we plant a garden, we spend time tilling the soil, preparing the seeds, planting the seeds, and watering the seeds. We get up everyday in expectation that something will start to grow from all of our hard work. We have hope!
What is it about people who are happy all of the time? They are filled with hope!
Hope is more than a feeling!
Romans 5:2 says, “By whom we also have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God.”
Romans 12:2 says, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”
Both of these scriptures mention being joyful in hope. We can be joyful because there is hope for tomorrow. I am learning to take one day at a time!
My joy is not in my circumstances. My joy is in knowing God!
Hope is based on the evidence of what God has done in the past.
Get your hopes up! Make hope a daily habit!
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And just like that, Easter is over. To some, it’s just a day filled with Easter eggs and chocolates. When it’s over, we go back to living our busy lives.
But to me Easter is more than a day. Easter is so much more.
Yesterday we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus our Lord and Savior. We can have hope because Jesus is alive!
We will battle hopelessness in our lives, however we must never give up. Because, hope is powerful.
“After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace [who imparts His blessing and favor], who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [making you what you ought to be]” 1 Peter 5:10.
I love this scripture. In the last year, we have gone through so much and just when we think it’s over, something else comes up. But knowing that God will take care of us through it all gives us hope.
Hope is the expectation that something good is going to happen.
Choose to believe that God is going to do something better in your life, even when you don’t feel like it.
God is greater than anything we go through.
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