Pathway to Hope #5
How to Choose Hope.
Dear Friend,
You have just had the chance to read some words of hope about God—solid truths you can believe and hold on to. But, as I alluded to in the last Pathway, finding hope in God brings us to something that is difficult for many people to get past—the fact that God is unseen.
For many, trying to bridge this gap feels like trying to leap across the Grand Canyon.
Here’s how you take the first step: ask God to reveal himself to you. Is that your desire? Then tell him! It sounds so simple, but it’s the way he works.
It may sound risky, but like me, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. In fact, we can find the most certain of hopes when we call upon the unseen God.
You do this through prayer—prayer is simply talking to God. You can pray out loud, or you can do it silently. There is no right or wrong way to do it.
A popular article on Hope Has Arrived is Asking God for Help. Hundreds of people are searching those terms in google each week. If you want to ask God for help, know that you are not alone.
Perhaps, you have prayed before, but it’s been a long, long time. Nevertheless, you can be confident that God will listen to you. As he says, “Then you will call upon me and come to me and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”1
God stands ready to meet with you. As he says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in.
Here is how you can begin a relationship with God right now: Knowing God Personally.
The hope I found is available for you. God never intended that you would suffer without hope. He is ready, right now, to walk with you through cancer—or really any other difficult thing you experience.
If you’re not ready to invite God into your life, prayer could be as simple as, “God, I ask you to reveal yourself to me and show me your hope.”
What may have seemed like an impossible canyon—the canyon of belief—can now be bridged. Or at very least, you took one small step forward to crossing this gap.
In the next Pathway, I’m going to tell you more about Jesus—the one the Bible calls, “The Living Hope.” He is the one who helps us reach the other side of the canyon.
Yours for hope,
Chris Lawrence
Founder of Hope Has Arrived
Three steps you can take:
Ponder: How are you feeling about asking God to reveal himself to you? Apprehensive, excited, expectant?
Remember: We find the most certain of hopes when we call upon the unseen God.
Consider: these words of hope: “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
Footnotes: (1) Jeremiah 29:12-13 (2) Revelation 3:20
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