Having Hope for the Future, Part 1 (TMF:1813)

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Peace to Live By: Having Hope for the Future, Part 1 (TMF:1813) - Daniel Litton
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       Just because hope doesn’t work one, two, or even three times, that doesn’t then mean that we are to give up hope altogether, as I have witnessed many people do. I have seen people abandon a faith-filled attitude and instead take on a naturalistic, what they call ‘realistic,’ and what I call a ‘deistic’ perspective in life. These are the type of people who say, “Oh, God may do this or that. He may make this come to pass, or he may not. We simply don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see.” Instead, they should be saying, “I believe God is going to do this good thing” (whatever it is). “I believe he is on my side and wants to do it.” If you’re a person who has realized you need to change the way you think, to go from negative to positive, from expecting the worst to expecting the best, then you’re heading in the right direction. Understand, however, that this change in your thought-patterns is going to take time; it’s not something that’s going to happen quickly. Don’t let your struggle to make the change discourage you.