Lord, your word is forever; it is firmly fixed in heaven. —Psalm 119:89
We’ve all experienced the sorrow that comes when we put our hope in the wrong source. We hoped a relationship would satisfy us, only to see it end. We hoped a new diet would fix us, only to discover we’re still living in a broken body. We hoped the change of seasons would nudge us out of our funk, only to discover new sources of discouragement.
And yet there’s a source of hope that won’t fail us, a fountain of hope that can never run dry. God’s Word is that source. It is now and ever more will be.
The psalmist reminds us in Psalm 119 that we can hope in God’s Word because of its permanence. In a world where everything is perpetually shifting, God’s Word remains constant. It works like the North Star, giving us a permanent point to look for hope.
No matter what curveballs life throws at you. No matter what sands shift beneath your feet. No matter what else changes, you can have hope, because the hope-filled Word of God is firmly fixed.
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True Hope Challenge (ReviveOurHearts.com, 2020)
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Think of a time when you were tempted to despair but God’s Word gave you hope. How can you turn toward Scripture more often?