What does HOPE look like?

I hope that I can look like that. I hope that my children don't act that way. I hope that she won't remember how I treated her. I hope that my husband will love me forever. I hope that I will not spend eternity in hell. I hope........

You and I were created by a WONDERFUL and LOVING GOD. We are lovely to Him. Psalm 139:13-15 NIV "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place."

Walking with integrity and character inside the home as well as outside the home will help guide your children. We must begin to match our walk with our talk. Proverbs 22:6 NIV "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Notice this is a promise, and we don't know how that child will be from youth to old, but WHEN he is old....Praise You Father, Praise You. We all have free-will and make poor choices; but I also BELIEVE GOD.

As humans we have an internal "c-drive" that doesn't forget, but Praise God!!! When we come to Him with a true repentative heart, he forgets. Psalm 103:12 NIV "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." It may be in the Message but I have written in my margin from sunrise to sunset. Girlfriend and Guy friends, that is not even measurable....He erases it from the record book. He has a delete button, it is GONE! Oh, Glory to God!!!

Love....we are humans and humans are not God. God will love you forever, place your heart in His hands. Jeremiah 31:3 NIV "The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.'" Ladies, we are told to respect and submit to our husband and they are told to love us as Christ loves the church. If we don't respect them why in the world would they love us? (Please, I'm speaking to myself as well!) Ephesians 5:24-26 NIV "Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word."

John 3:16 NIV "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:36 NIV "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

Promises.....TRUTH.....this is what HOPE looks like to me, and I pray this is what HOPE looks like to you as well. If you feel a little "hope-less" this morning, open God's word and drink it in. Let it wash over you and fill you to over flowing once again. He loves you precious one, He loves YOU.

Lovingly,
Yolanda