I read the news daily and I am never encouraged by it. However, there is a need to know what is going on in our world.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of the mess that took place following 1861 and came to this conclusion:
“Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.”
– Abraham Lincoln (in the context of The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865)
I would like to offer you hope for the world, but there is none. The Scriptures also paint a pretty bleak picture. What I can give you is a hope that lies in the next world.
Isaiah 40:31
“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.”
Romans 8:18
“The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
Read about the Christian’s hope and the encouragement will warm your soul.
Give it some thought.
Gary