Where’s Your Hope?

Getting tired or growing weary? Is life just tough?

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.  He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)

Fatigue and discouragement often run together as best friends. When we get tired we are more susceptible to discouragement, depression and many other emotional ills. Simple annoyances can become traumatic experiences. Then we lose our focus and become consumed with the circumstances of life. Before long, God is no longer a part of our daily thought process and all we can see are the annoyances that have become trials of epic proportions. Really, the annoyances have gotten no bigger we have just chosen to focus on them. I remember talking with an elderly gentleman a few years ago who grew up in the great depression years. He told me “The great depression was nothing to my family. We lived in the country. We were poor when it began and we were poor when it ended. We hunted for food during the depression just like we did when times were good. It was those city boys that were jumping out the windows.” His focused never changed throughout those terrible years even though things around him did.

What is your mental state today? Is your trial really that big or does it just look big because you are focused on it? Where do you place your hope? Place your hope in God through Jesus and find renewed strength, power and the ability to soar with eagles! Even though you may be going through a great depression, placing your perspective in the proper place will help you get through it. The proper perspective is the Lord’s perspective. Focus on God. Then the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth who neither tires nor wearies will give you the strength you need today. Place your hope in Him and watch how your traumatic trials turn once again into everyday annoyances.