Greetings to all, as we start this new week, let us thank God in advance for the hope and possibilities that will come our way this week. May we start and finish each day healthy, full of joy, and with a peace that surpasses all understanding. Amen
There are situations and times in life when we feel helpless and not in control. For many people, living during this pandemic feels like that.
During these difficult and challenging times, it's easy to lose hope and give up when faced with the uncertainty of things.
Instead of losing hope and giving up, we should turn to the Lord in prayer, and do everything we can to live life to the fullest. God will help us to overcome, even when things are at their lowest.
Despite all the turmoil and the troubling times we are facing right now as a nation, and individually, we should keep moving forward because the past is gone.
Through Jesus Christ, we also should, and we can have the boldness and the audacity to hope that things can and will be better.
Jeremiah 17:7 (KJV)
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Lesson: The photo used today is an 1885 painting by George Frederic Watts called "Hope." It's a timely picture for our nation, which is in the midst of so much that's forcing us to hope for better.
"Hope" illustrates the power of this picture to make us think. The blinded figure, seated on the sphere with her broken lyre, is bending her ear to catch what music she may from the last remaining string.
She cannot see the star shining above her; one by one the sweet notes of music have been taken from her, but still, she sits, bowed but not broken, plucking with tender fingers whatever melody she may from the last string of those that gave her the full harmonies of beauty.
She has no vision either of the star above or of the world of darkness and gloom below. Her attitude of dejection almost rejects the conventional idea that there is happiness to be found when everything seems lost. Still, the picture suggests the larger hope of the world that there is peace and light above the turmoil and sorrow of the earth.
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