HOPE

Today I was filled with thoughts that were not what you want to think.  Sometimes it fills me, all the things in the world that are going wrong, all the people with their big money trying to take away the few rights that we have left, all the fear that sets in when you don't let your mind be filled with the things of Christ,
when the junk wants to rule you and you forget that He has already won the Victory and we are living our life for Him.  I would name it as fear I think.  A fear that I feel for the next generation...
for families,
for health,
for freedom,
freedom of worship,
freedom to choose what we want for our health,
freedom to know the truth and decide for ourselves...
The list could go on and on and soon I am consumed...
Then it comes to me like the innocence of a child in a room full of lions...
If I am indeed living my life for Christ and I realize that life is not about me, but about HIm living in me...
then I have won also.
I take some breaths and reach over to see if I can find a book to read, something to fill my mind with Christ and His Victory, Christ and His Love.
and this is what I find...

Dear Lord,
Help me to hope again. Help me dare to hope again.
When my hopes are dashed, help me to realize that my security is not in a place of worship or in a system of worship.  It is not in the peace of my circumstances or the prosperity of my surroundings.  It is not in the strength of the convictions inside me or in the capabilities of the people around me.
It is in You alone, Sweet Jesus, Lord, Holy One.
Should there come a day when everything I once leaned on for security lies in ruins, help me to lift up my eyes from the ashes and look to You.
May it dawn on me then that Your unfailing love, Your faithfulness and Your mercies together make up the cornerstone of hope upon which I can rebuild my life, upon which the earth can again begin to rebuild its ruins.
Amen

It is a prayer written by Ken Gire, I write it out and make a few changes for myself and find this picture in the pile I am looking through...
and suddenly my heart is flooded with a love that I know is straight from Him.
Thank-you Lord
I am free because of the Victory you