Hope

It has been said that man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, and about eight minutes without air-but only one second without hope.

“Totally without hope, one cannot live.” Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s Hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The importance of hope is often underrated. Likewise, the danger of giving up hope is underappreciated. If you give up hope you may well be giving up life. It is very easy to give up hope if you’ve given up hope in an area before. It becomes easier and easier. In those losses, you can give up those parts of your life and future. It is much better to try and fail than fail to try because you have no hope.

Hang onto hope tenaciously. It could be a matter of life and death.

I share this today for many things seem hopeless in my life, but I cannot go there. Giving up could mean destruction. I must believe and hope and love. In bleak circumstances, I choose to embrace life. I pray that you will embrace the positive too. JESUS