The world cries out for hope.

HOPE - THE ANCHOR OF YOUR SOUL
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12
Does hope seem as distant to you as the horizon across the ocean?
Are you wondering whether you can ever regain the stability of hope in your life?
Have you ever felt a sense of hopelessness because your life was turned upside down and you didn’t know where you were headed—that your life had drifted off course?
When you are in trouble and feeling overwhelmed, you need something to stabilize your life. You need an anchor. The Women of Faith resources will help anchor your life by explaining the unshakable hope you have in Christ. Learn the difference between cultural and Christian hope, how to identify unreliable anchors you may mistakenly look to for help, and how God’s unchanging Word offers hope and stability for uncertain times.
The world cries out for hope.
From individuals and families to cities and nations, the cries for justice, for peace, for hope ring out around the world. We cry out for answers, for guidance, for comfort . . . to make it through one more season, to overcome one more tragedy, to persevere one more day.
There is only one hope that will satisfy our longings and our cries, one hope that will anchor us during the storms of life—the hope of Jesus Christ.
From His first cry as a baby to His last cry on the cross, Jesus Christ came to give us hope. The Bible says of Jesus:
“In his name the nations will put their hope.” Matthew 12:21
What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. They both stabilize whatever needs to be held steady amidst the storms in life. Every Christian has been given a secure anchor in the person of Christ… for the Bible says about Jesus…
“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.” Hebrews 6:19
We have all been “in the same boat” with cloudy thinking about hope. The common view of hope in our culture is quite different from Christian hope. If you live by cultural hope, you will have a boatful of wishful thinking, and what you hope for will sometimes happen … and sometimes not.
However, Christian hope is based on the Bible—God’s unchanging Word. By patiently relying on what God says, you will have all the hope necessary with all the certainty you will ever need. The apostle Paul states the source of our hope…
“Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” Romans 15:4