Hope

Tonight is not a good night. I just had a conversation with someone who is utterly without hope. I don't know if you've ever heard someone who has no hope, but it's one of the most difficult things to hear. Entirely broken, defeated, depressed, empty.

Sobbing in my arms, I didn't know what else to say to this person other than to point them to the only true and lasting Hope that I've ever known. "I don't want to talk about that," came the quiet words from this person's lips. An honest statement, but a gutwrenching rejection of the only One who can offer true comfort and peace in the midst of an entirely broken spirit.

I don't know how anyone has hope unless they know Christ. We spend our lives placing hope in a relationship, or a career, or grades, or in ourselves. But when it comes down to the deepest recesses of our souls and the most intimate places of our hearts, these things can never give us the hope we so desperately crave. When everything is falling apart, these things won't stand to hold us up.

Maybe you're hopeless tonight. Or maybe, like myself, you're sitting awake at 2:00am, thinking about how you have to wake up in a few hours to head to work or class, just clinging to the only Hope that you know. Whatever your situation, know this: there is a Savior, with arms open wide, offering true Hope in the midst of a world gone mad.

Have You Ever - Shawn McDonald

Have you ever wanted to be someone else

Have you ever wanted just to be someone

Have you ever wanted to reach your dreams

Have you ever wanted life to be more than it seems

I have tasted of a love so wide

That it stops all my time

I have tasted of a love so deep

That it blows my mind

Have you ever wanted to reach up and touch the sky

Have you ever wanted to pack it up and say goodbye

Have you ever wanted someone to care

Have you ever wanted someone to be there

He is sweet, He is sweet

What you're looking for

Is my sweet, sweet Jesus

What you're looking for

Is my sweet Lord