Dream Haters: Hopeless Hang-ups

Hope does not disappoint.

Romans 5:5 (NKJV)

We were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Romans 8:24-25 (NKJV)

Dream Haters aren't just naysaying people. 

  • They're also tests and tough circumstances that try to yank the hope right out of us.

  • They’re challenges that set the stage for stars, like Job, David, Jeremiah, and Paul.

These heroes spoke frequently about hope, because hope gave them strength to persevere.

Like drowning men in the midst of a flood, like fragile rowboats on a stormy sea, they held tight to hope! 'This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast' (Hebrews 6:19).

  • In catastrophic anguish, Job despaired: 'What strength do I have, that I should hope?' (Job 6:11).

  • In helpless desperation, David clung: 'My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your Word' (Psalm 119:81).

  • In sadness, Jeremiah heard God say: ' 'I know the thoughts that I think toward you,' says the Lord, 'thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope' ' (Jeremiah 29:11).

  • In Jesus, Paul rejoiced and shared with us: 'For in hope we have been saved' (Romans 8:24). This 'Hope does not disappoint' (Romans 5:5).

Actors, models, and talent for Christ:

Your overcoming stories are trailers:

  • Snapshots of your real-life, hard-won dramas,

  • Sorrows that tried to crush your destiny,

  • Grave diggers that sought to bury your gifts.

  • In faith, you fell to your knees in prayer.

  • In hope (given by Jesus), God lifts you!

When He hung on a Cross, God showed and shared... not even THE WORST hang-up is hopeless!

So don't buy into Satan’s foolery. If 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for' (Hebrews 11:1), continue hoping. Because without hope, faith has no substance. And without faith, our Director’s not pleased:(

Therefore, CLING TO HOPE! SO WHAT if shallow people don’t get it! No one on Earth can comprehend God’s Mind. Neither He (nor the hopes, dreams, and callings He inspires) are meant to seem “logical” to human minds with a limited view.

CONCLUSION: When you cling to hope, hope clings back to you… in an unbreakably lasting embrace. 

Dream Haters: Hopeless Hang-ups (Part 22)

NOTE: God is my Ghostwriter. If what I write is good, it’s from God. You may see notes to 'Actors, Models & Talent for Christ.' If you think you're not in show business, think again. Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage and all its men and women merely players.’ Mostly true. But you're not merely players. You are messengers and ambassadors for the King of kings.

Carey Arban