HOPE - THE ONLY LIFELINE!
TODAY’S MESSAGE of ENCOURAGEMENT
FROM
Discovering a BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES
(Stories of Real People, Real Events, Real Places)
Are dedicated to HELPING
PEOPLE FIND PEACE and HOPE
(John 10:10)
(MAY 12th, 2020)
HOPE - THE ONLY LIFELINE!
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may over flow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13).
FRIEND, David Aikman holds a PhD in Russian and Chinese history. He worked for 20 years as a respected Journalist for Time Magazine, covering major stories around the world. He's seen great events as they unfolded and witnessed incredible suffering. David recently took some time off to write a book: Hope: The Heart's Great Quest. He surveyed the world religions' teaching about hope and read books on hope by the world's best known philosophers. Finally he surveyed carefully what the Bible teaches about hope. He says: "I had always been intrigued by hope, but in something of a relaxed, almost detached manner. I had no concept of it as the only lifeline that at times can keep a person afloat when floodwaters of trouble and catastrophe seem certain to engulf him or her." "But I learned how shallow my original notions had been when truly fateful circumstances engulfed me over a period of two years." First as David was researching for his book, his marriage broke up. He wrote: "How pathetic can you be? You who have spoken so often of Christ's healing power... here you are adding yourself to the sad statistical saga of marriage breakdown." Next, David saw his two lovely teenage daughters traumatized by the parental break-up. Then the sorrows kept piling on - creating the need to sell the family home. Friend, David's study of hope, begun in curiosity, suddenly became urgent - a life or death matter. The collapse of his life made his search for hope real and urgent. He cried out: "Could the hope that intrigued me as a book subject also be a quality that could bring light into the darkness of my own griefs?" David ends the book with these words: "God's grace reached down and reassembled hope in my own life. He did so, first of all, by entering into the greatest of my catastrophes, the broken-down structure of my marriage... His grace worked in remarkable change in my heart and my wife's. Even our family and closest friends were amazed at what they saw happening in front of them." Happily, David reports that his two daughters "found new conviction in their own lives that the God of hope is truly just that. With conviction came their own dedication..." Friend, David Aikman's candid story demonstrates the restoring power of the love of God. You may want to add his book to your personal library. More important, you may want to talk about your need for hope. I want to remind each of you who are reading this message today that God's power gives new hope to those who are hanging to hope by a thread. So no matter what your personal circumstances might be, your situation is not hopeless - because God gives us hope!
With that thought in mind, I'd like to help you embrace God's restoring hope. Write to DISCOVERING A BETTER LIFE today.We will personally answer your letter.
Friend, if you would like to receive a complimentary pamphlet titled “HOPE,” a pamphlet which may help you discover the hope God offers to all who are willing to trust in Jesus Christ, we would be pleased to send one to you.
Simply write to Discovering A BETTER LIFE, P.O. Box 1540, Albany, Western Australia 6331. Phone us on: 98 418 418 Or Email us at: abl- alb@omninet.net.au
“Of all the forces that make for a better world,
None is so indispensable or as powerful as hope.
Without hope man is only half alive.”
Charles Sawyer, (1887-1979)
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