Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters,

where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

It is just me today, and we are reading out of New Morning Mercies and so let's just jump in. It says this,

every human being places his hope in something and every human being asks that hope to deliver something. Where have you placed your hope?

We all have been hardwired for hope. We all project our lives out into the future to imagine things as we would like them to be.

We all carry around with us personal hopes and dreams.

We all surrender our hearts to some type of expectation. We all silently wish that things could be

different than they are. We all hope in something and we all hope for something.

So much of how we look at life and how we live our lives is connected

to the things in which we place the fundamental hopes of our lives. Hope always has three

elements. an assessment, an object, and an expectation.

First, Hope looks around and assesses that something or someone could be better than it is. That, that something, someone is somehow broken. If things were as perfect as they could be,

you wouldn't need to hope. Second, hope always has an object.

It is the thing you bank your hope on.

You ask the object of your hope to fix what is broken or to deliver what is desired or needed.

Third, hope has an expectation.

This is what you ask the object of your hope to give you.

What you hope the object of your hope will deliver. Now there are really only

two places to look for foundational life hope that is, basic meaning and purpose, motivation

to continue, a sense of well-being and that knowledge

that you've hooked yourself to what life is really all about.

You can search for hope horizontally in the situations experiences physical

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