Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We're devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking back up with new morning mercies and I'm just going to take from here.

It says this, Gospel Hope is a mouthful. It includes so many wonderful provisions

that it's hard to get it all in one bite. Yes, the book will hope gives you a lot

of spiritual nutrients to chew on, yet many believers seem to live hope-deprived lives.

Perhaps one of the dirty secrets of the church is how much we do out of fear and not faith.

We permit ourselves to feel small,

to feel unable, alone, unprepared, and bereft of resources.

We tell ourselves that what we're facing is too big and requires too much of us.

We stand at the bottom of mountains of trouble and give up before we've even taken the first step of the climb.

We wait for hope to come in some noticeable, seeable way, but it never seems to arrive.

We pray, but it doesn't seem to do any good. We want to believe that God is there and that he really does care, but it seems that

we've been left to ourselves. With each day passing, it seems harder to have hope for our

marriages, for our children, for our churches, for our friendships,

or just for the ability to survive all the trouble with our faith and sanity intact.

We wonder, where is hope to be found? What we fail to understand is that we don't have a hope problem. We have a sight problem. Hope has come. What you say where? Hope isn't a thing. Hope isn't a set of circumstances. Hope isn't a first set of ideas. Hope is a person and his name is Jesus. He came to earth to face what you face and to defeat what defeats

you so that you would have hope. Your salvation means that you are now in a personal relationship with the one who is hope.

You have hope because he exists and is your savior.

You don't have a hope problem.

You have been given hope that is both real and constant.

The issue is whether you see it.

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