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Hope for the Hopeless


Imagine having nowhere to turn.  No one to look to and no one to go to and no one to turn to when things were rough. Recently a 13-year-old boy felt this way.  He was part of my niece’s class and had a terribly bad day.  He felt hopeless.  He took a gun.  He took the gun and put it to his head and pulled the trigger.  To our knowledge, he has not passed away yet.  We have heard that he passed and also that he did not pass, but is in a coma after surgery.  
This past Sunday we heard a message of HOPE given by our Pastor at The Fields Church in Mattoon.  The message was of how Jesus makes hopeless situations and inserts hope into them.  During the sermon, our pastor held up a balloon.  That is our life.  We are hopeless without Christ.  Then, Christ breathes life into us and we inflate.  When we let Christ breathe into our lives, we are able to take the shape that He created us for.  We no longer sit there in a bag or on a shelf, but we become items of Joy.  When Christ breathes into us, our hope is found. 

Thinking of this little boy suffering and all the people that are suffering with him right now; my heart breaks.  It breaks to the point that I could sit and cry that he felt this hopeless.  Lets be the hope people need.  Lets be the HOPE that Christ made us to show.  Let’s be the vessels that Christ made us to be and let everyone see that situations are not hopeless.  Let’s pray that hope comes into this situation. 

When we asked Christ to come into our lives, we asked Him to fill us and make us what He created us for.  He gave us the Spirit.  The fruits of the Spirit are LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, and SELF CONTROL (Galatians 5: 22-23).  If everyone, every Christian, shows and demonstrate even one of these every day, can you imagine the impact on the world? 

Pray today for those hopeless, pray that they find the Peace that passes all understanding.  Pray for this little boy, his classmates, his parents, his life, his doctors and all those around him.  Pray for a healing.  Thank you in advance for the prayers. 
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  1. M.S.April 3, 2013 at 8:56 PM

    Thank you for a beautiful heartfelt message. What a blessing your words are.

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