Thursday Thoughts on Hope

When life’s load becomes
Too heavy to bear

Fold it between
Your fingers

In prayer

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Today is only twenty-four hours

Then it is gone forever

Hope is an ageless, Timeless God

That no tick-tock can sever

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Yea, though I walk through the valley

Of the shadow of death

There is One who goes before me

God of heaven and earth

His rod and staff, they comfort me

No evil will I fear

For no matter where life leads

I know that He is near

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Hope is a thing we cannot see

To hope in gods of stone

Is to hope in futility

For God is Hope alone

We cannot see His face and yet

We sense Him, oh, so near

For God is Hope; hope is not dead

Until Time disappears

…and then, the hour of Hope’s reward

For as this life grows dim

All who have trusted in the Lord

Will ever be with Him

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Rock of ages cleft for me

Hope for all humanity

Never can a storm or gale

Crush love’s Hope that cannot fail

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Oh, sweet, sweet hour of prayer

Hope is restored therein

For God beholds each hurt we bear

And as we cry to Him

He sends His whisper; we release

Our longing in His arms of peace

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Just as I am; God You love me

Forgiven, justified

Just as I am; how I love Thee

Hope born as Your Son died

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What a Friend we have in Jesus

How He longs to befriend all

Hope is found in His forgiveness

And lost if we scorn His call

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Man of sorrows, what a Name

Hope of sinners bore our blame

Dare we yet choose our guilt

In place of Love’s offering spilt?

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Oh God our help in ages past

Our hope for years to come

There is no other name on earth

That draws the sinner Home

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ABC’s of Hope Is…

Abiding

Blood-bought

Calvary

Divine

Eternal

Faithful

God

Heaven

Invisible

Jesus

Knowing

Life

Might

Nurturing

Omnipotent

Peace

Quiet

Redemption

Security/Salvation

Trusting

Undefeatable

Victory

Worship

X-cellent

Yahweh

Zeal

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Without hope…we die

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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. Isa. 40:31