HOPE

There was a child, only ten years old, and she had been terribly burned. As she lay on her hospital bed in agonizing pain, the doctors came to the decision she would not live. Then, her teacher came to call, bringing her books the class had been given to read, along with homework that she was to do as soon as she felt better. And to the amazement of her doctors she did get better. After a few weeks they found out why as she shared this thought with them, “They don’t bring books and homework to someone who is about to die.”

It was a message of hope and it changed the little girl’s life. And that is what Jesus is, or should be, to you and me. A message of hope. God didn’t give up on us. Why else would He send His Son? He believed and still believes in us.

“And now Lord, what do I wait for and expect? My hope and expectation are in You.” Psalm 39:7