Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Titus 2:11 – 15
We fight against the absence of hope.
The absence of hope produces certain feelings like…
despair
being abandoned by God
A longing for the pain and hardship to end soon
Trusting our own actions rather than waiting on/trusting God.
Suicide
We all long for hope.
Our longing is satisfied in Jesus Christ.
We (the Church) are the enduring
WE must accept finite disappointment, but need lose infinite hoe. Martin Luther King Jr.