Knowing God - He Wants Our Hope

Ps 78:7

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

God Wants Our Hope

Hope.  This word has been watered down in modern English.  We use the word hope to express a slight expectation of something but deep down inside we aren’t going to get too excited about it.  The biblical hope is a hope that is rooted in trust/faith.  Hope in the Word of God is describing an anticipation rooted in an expectation that God can do anything and that God will do the best possible thing in a situation.  This is a hope that involves looking forward to something you know is really good and is going to come your way.  Here, the Lord is revealing to us that our hope is to be set in Him.  Our hope isn’t really in the things that God will do but in God Himself.  Our hope is not to be put anywhere else.  We are not looking to a person, the government, ourselves, the doctors or some sort of promise that has been made by anyone other than the Lord Himself.  We must SET our hope in God.  We must be a people who awaken each morning and look up!  We must become those little children who are excited for each new day because our God has things in mind for us and truly works wonders we could never have thought of.  God is the place for our hope.  God is the one we can look to expectantly and with great anticipation.  Why are you cast down?  Hope in God!