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! WHERE TO FIND THE HOPE YOU NEED
*How God Meets Your Deepest Needs*
*Part 1 of 2 *
*October 8, 2006*
!! Part 1- 1926words
At the end of World War II, an American submarine returned to its American base, to dock.
As it came into port something terrible went wrong with the mechanism and it began to sink in the harbour.
They immediately dispatched coastguards to go out because obviously it was full of crew and they were trying to save the crew.
They dispatched divers that would dive down to the hull of the submarine and find out what went wrong.
As the divers swam around the sub you could hear that one inventive sailor had a hammer and was knocking on the hull from the inside in Morse code, “Is there hope?”
Is there hope?
That’s one of the fundamental questions of life.
Is life worth living?
Is there hope?
Can I count on anything in life?
Is there hope?
It’s asked everyday by thousands of people in thousands of different ways.
When you phone the doctor’s surgery to get the test results you’ve been waiting for, you hear the question, “Is there hope?”
When you’re standing by the bedside at the hospital, you hear the question, “Is there hope?”
When a couple who’ve put months and months into marriage counsellors sitting there and getting nowhere, they’re thinking in their minds, “Is there hope?”
When you’re dealing with a tax accountant in a bankruptcy court and you ask, “Is there hope?”
When a couple or a family hears that their child is missing, they ask the police, “Is there hope?” Governmental and political leaders ask the question about places like Iraq, “Is there hope?”
You can go forty days without food and three days without water and you can go eight minutes without air.
But you can’t go a single second without hope.
Hope is one of the essentials of life.
When hope is gone, life is over.
You need hope to cope.
Hope makes all the difference in the world.
It is essential for handling the crises of life.
But when hope is gone, people fall apart – emotionally, physically and spiritually.”
Today we’re going to be asking: Where do you go to find the help and the hope that you need.
You have to have hope to believe that God will work
in your life.
You have to have hope to believe that God can change your situation, that God can meet your needs.
You’ve got to have hope.
Because hope is in such short supply in our society today, people will fall for all kinds of scams.
They actually put their hope in false hope.
They trust in things like physic hotlines and palm reading and astrology, fake healers, quack cures, all kind of crazy things – crystals – putting their hope in rocks – and things like that.
And of course, inevitably, these things disappoint and actually they end up being worse off because nothing is worse than being disappointed by a false hope.
Nothing is more useless than false hope.
Is there any place that I can get hope I can depend on, that I can count on for the crises of life, the things that are going to come into my life that I don’t plan but blow me over?
Are there any things like that that I can count on?
Where do I find that kind of hope?
The Bible tells us that you find it in God.
God is the source – the /source/ of hope.
Romans 15:13 /“May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in Him.”/
In other words as you put your faith in God, He gives you peace, joy and hope.
And He says, /“.. Then you will overflow with hope…”/ Specifically, God says if you want to put your hope in Me, you need to put it in My name.
/“In Your name I will hope, for Your name is good.”/
What does that mean?
How do you put hope in a name?
What’s the big deal?
In ancient cultures, they would choose a name because of what it meant, because of what it described.
In fact, your name was usually the definition of your character.
You were given a name that matched who you were.
When God chose to reveal Himself to the Hebrew nation, He used Hebrew terms to describe Himself.
Did you know that God has a lot of different names?
In the Bible, God calls Himself by many different Hebrew names.
Each one of those names is a description of His character.
Each one of those names is a promise to you.
Each one of those names is a benefit that God says, I provide to man.
For instance, one time God used the Hebrew name Yahweh Shalom.
That means, “I am the God who gives you peace.
And if you want real peace of mind you come to Me for it.”
In another place He uses the Hebrew term, I am Yahweh Jireh.
That means, “I am the God who provides for all your needs.
You can count on Me.
You can come to Me.” Perhaps we’ll look at these names in the future because, its comforting to realise that for every one of the needs of man there’s a corresponding name of God.
And God says in so many ways, “Have you got a need?
I can meet that.
You got another need?
I can meet that.”
And so it goes on.
At the end of the book of Ezekiel, (48.35)
God gives one of His names.
He says “I am Yahweh Shammah.”
In Hebrew that means, “I am the God who is always there.”
There is no place that God is not.
There is no place you will go that God isn’t.
God has been in your past.
He’s in your present.
He’s going to be in your future.
He’s in the good times and the bad times.
He’s in the good places.
He’s in the evil places.
He is everywhere.
This has profound implications on where you find hope.
If God is truly with me all the time, whether I feel it or not, if He’s truly with me, then that means there are three sources of hope that I can count on.
There are a lot of things in life that I can’t count on, a lot of things in life that are uncertain.
These are three anchors of the soul as the Bible calls them – hope is the anchor of the soul – things that I can count on so that no matter what happens, I know that life is not hopeless.
We’re going to look at the first one today and the other two next week.
The first thing I know about God is….*
HIS PRESENCE IS WATCHING OVER ME.*
The older I get the more I realize how much of my life is out of my control.
The truth is, not only can I not control much of what’s in the future, I don’t even know much of what’s in the future.
Isaiah 41:10 /“’Don’t worry because I am with you,’ says God. ‘Don’t be afraid, because I am your God.
I will make you strong and I will help you.
I will support you.’”/
The good news is regardless of what happens, you and I don’t have to go through it alone.
There is a God who will be with us.
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