Hope

Google defines hope as "a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen." I agree with this definition to an extent, because hope, allows for us to go further than what we see. Jesus is the hope to the hopeless and Jesus hasn't told us to give up hope. Romans 5:5 says "And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us." 

Hope is one of the ways that gives us a desire to live, but then even after life we have a hope to be with Christ. Hope can also come in different forms, for example: I have hope to see my birth parents or family again. This kind of hope is very ambitious because realistically I will probably not be able to see any of them again. But to take away that hope, takes away part of my life, because they are the people that have similar genes that I do, possibly within the same gene pool. I have never met them or know anything about them, but I still have hope that one day I may be able to see them. That's a very extreme example, but it's true. God can do the most impossible and bring hope to what seems  very hopeless. Another more realistic example; graduation is approaching and that's the end of High school, Middle school, and Elementary school, if I had no hope, I would see graduation as the end. However, I have hope that I will have a career and a future beyond high school. It allows me to see further than high school and motivates me to keep going.

I have hopes that I can reach my goal on my fundraising for YWAM DTS. gofund.me/maggiezrhea
I hope to reach this goal, which can take me beyond what I can see or imagine now. 

As Christ followers, our hope is to be with in heaven with God one day. Our preacher said that, hope helps us see beyond the horizon.  Having Hope in Christ allows us to see that there's something beyond even death, which is eternal life with Christ in heaven. 

Taking away hope from someone, no matter how far out of reach it seems to be, I personally would feel robbed. Even if it was something that others know that it can't happen and it's so far out of reach, it's still robbing a person from that aspect of their life.

I want to close with this verse from Job 11:18 

"You will be secure, because there is hope;

    you will look about you and take your rest in safety."