by Dona Hake
Psalm 31:24 (NASB)
“Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord.”
The other day while riding in my car I heard someone sharing a testimony and it was relative to our hope being in the Lord. She said, “Hope is like oxygen for your next breath.” That one sentence was so powerful and it really touched my heart. Sometimes in life you just do not even know what you are going to do in the next moment you face. Things can be so overwhelming that we seem to not be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Know that Jesus is there for you, no matter how hopeless it may seem.
When I ponder this scripture in Psalms, it challenges my heart in a different way. It says, “and let your heart take courage…” Sometimes we can tend to relax our faith and just accept things as they are, therefore discouragement is able to flood your soul. God desires that we TAKE COURAGE and believe for things to become as He sees them. Let us take courage as we hope in Him for He truly is our light no matter how dark the darkness is. Know that hope in Him is like oxygen for your next breath and it will cause you to hold fast and confidently stand in faith until your storm passes.
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