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! WHERE TO FIND THE HOPE YOU NEED
*How God Meets Your Deepest Needs*
*Part 2 of 2 *
*October 15, 2006*
!! Part 2- 1924 words
Our theme this morning is ‘Hope’ and we are continuing from where we left off last week.
If you recall, we looked at the first of three sources of hope: *GOD’S PRESENCE IS WATCHING OVER ME.*
The second source of hope is this: *HIS PURPOSE IS WORKING IN ME.*
No matter what’s happening in my life – good, bad, or ugly – God’s purpose is working in me.
When you have a problem that you don’t understand the purpose, that’s very difficult to handle.
You know the most difficult kinds of questions of life are, “Why is this happening to me?”
When the problem is there that’s kind of a freak accident and it doesn’t have any rhyme or reason to it.
It just doesn’t make sense.
Those are the kind of situations that are the most difficult to handle.
On the other hand, when you see a purpose behind your problem it gives you enormous hope.
It also gives you enormous power to endure it.
And God says, I am working in your life and I have a purpose no matter what’s happening.
God is doing good things in my life even when the situation is bad, even when I don’t feel it, even when it doesn’t make sense, even when I have no understanding.
When the situation is bad, He is still doing good things in my life.
I want us to look at a couple of verses.
These verses are so important, they really explain what life is all about.
*Romans 8:28* is a verse well worth memorising: “/We know that God causes all things to work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.”/
This is such a significant verse I want us to look at it word by word.
Notice first what it doesn’t say.
It doesn’t say, “All things work out the way I want them to.”
We would like that and we’d like to interpret it that way but that’s not what it says.
It doesn’t say, “All things work out the way I want them to.”
Reality teaches us that not every patient gets well, that not every couple that gets married lives happily ever after.
Reality teaches us that not every business decision makes a million pounds, not every problem is resolved.
So we know that’s not true.
All children don’t get straight A’s and become captain of the football team.
What does it say?
First it says, /“We know that God causes all things to work together for good.”/
“We know”.
What that means is we don’t wish, we don’t imagine,
we don’t desire, we don’t have false hope.
It just says, We know.
It is a certainty.
We are confident of whatever comes after this.
“Hope is not the same as optimism.
It is not the conviction that something will turn out well.
But hope is the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
What is it “We know”?
/“… that God causes…”/ There is a grand master designer of the universe.
And there is a plan that is in action and history is His story.
There is no such thing as fate.
There is no such thing as chance.
There is no such thing as luck – good luck or bad luck.
There is no such thing as karma, what will be will be or destiny.
There is a master designer.
We make mistakes for sure.
We make lots of mistakes.
But God never makes mistakes.
/“We know that God causes all things to work together for good.”
/ - *“all things”*.
What does that include?
Does that include illness?
Yes.
Does that include unemployment?
Certainly.
Does it include divorce?
Does it include a miscarriage?
Does it include failure?
Does it include freak accidents?
Does it include the stupid decisions that I make and the mistakes I bring upon myself?
Yes!
Absolutely, yes! Everything fits into God’s plan.
The good, the bad, the indifferent.
The things that I do, the things I don’t do.
The things that I control, the things I don’t control.
All things work together for good.
Notice: It doesn’t say, “all things are good.”
And it does not say God causes all things.
God does not.
God does not cause rape.
God does not cause war.
God does not cause famine and poverty.
God does not cause leukemia and cancer.
To attribute those things to God is to turn God into a monster.
God is not a monster.
It doesn’t say God causes all things.
We bring a lot on ourselves.
But it does say that/ “God causes all things to work together for good.”/
It’s not by accident and it’s not separate.
They work together.
Can God bring good out of the bad? Did He bring any good out of the crucifixion?
I’d say so.
The crucifixion was horrific.
But God brought good out of it.
When you understand that God is not only watching over you but He’s working in you; He not only has His presence but He has a purpose, then that’s a source of enormous hope.
Notice the qualifier of this great promise.
It is not for everybody.
It says /“… those who love God…”/ All things do not work together for good for everybody.
In fact, if you are thumbing your nose to God, walking out the back door and saying, “Forget You, God!” all things are not working for good in your life.
In fact, all things are working for bad in your life.
This is not a promise to everybody.
It’s a promise for those who love God and want to have a relationship with Him and who are trying to live according to His purpose.
This morning if you are here and you’re facing an impossible situation, the next verse is for you.
*Jeremiah 29:11* God says, /“I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you.
I will give you hope and a good future.”/
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