WHEN ALL HOPE IS GONE

Do you have days or lifetimes that seem to say: "all hope is gone?"  In walking the life or a radical follower of Jesus I cannot tell you the number of times I just wanted to literally throw in the towel as I was at the end of hopelessness.  In fact their was a point my precious father-in-love actually handed me a white towel and I asked him: "what is that for."  He replies:  "throw it in" meaning give up on what you have dreamed for, believed for, and declared for in your personal & ministry life.  I ask you as I ask myself: wherein does my hope depend on when All Hope Is Gone.  Me, others, God?  As I think about this the words from that hymn of old comes to mind:  "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness.  I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean in Jesus' Name!   On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand."  So when you are at the point of thinking all hope is gone, put your trust in one and one alone, the man Christ Jesus.  A sure foundation can never be found elsewhere.  My hope is in God and God alone.