Where’s Your Hand Basket Headed?

You need hope to cope and if you let it down you’ll start to mope. It’s horrible when you’re hopeless because you feel helpless and haggard. And it’s hard to get anything done when you don’t see the point. Its like being in a pit with a shovel so what do you do? Dig! “Dig, why would I even waste my energy being a digger, wouldn’t that just make my pit bigger?” Well it depends on your perspective, if your looking down you’ll dig down but if you look up you’ll dig up. And if you dig up even at a small incline eventually you will tunnel out of your pit and emerge on top victorious. Your imagination is a tool like this shovel and what you do with it depends on where you will end up. If you listen to all the naysayers and media players and let yourself go you’ll begin to see like they see. Join their crowd even in thought and you’ll start throwing dirt helping to dig the corporate pit of the company of misery. It’s a mass grave for the minds of those who have no hope and many seem to be sliding down its slippery slope. The world seems be “going to hell in a hand basket” but we’re redeemed from that! And if you think about it how can the world even fit in a hand basket anyway? I know it’s just a saying but a stupid one. The only One that could make a hand basket big enough is God and He’s not sending the world to hell. If He was they would have already been there. On the contrary, “…God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17) So even if God had a hand basket He’d be using it to gather the “precious fruit of the earth” and bring the souls of believers to heaven. This is just a small example of how you use your imagination to either think like God or d-evil.

You hear all kinds of “stuff” everyday and if you don’t think about what God said about it then you’ll have no true hope. Hope comes from receiving and believing the truth about the future. There’s many moronic and ignorant predictors “prophesying” and prey-ing on the minds of the weak and then there’s the One who knows and shows the Truth. Think about it, isn’t it stupid to try to teach what you don’t know? Yet some try to tell you about “your future” when they don’t even have a view or a clue because they can’t see it.

James 4:13-16
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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But God really knows the future and wants to give you some insight so that you have hope.

Jeer 29:11-12
11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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Rom 15:4-5
4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
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You see God said that He will take care of you, that He will never leave or forsake you. When you know and imagine what it’s like to have the Almighty living in you then you have hope. It doesn’t matter what happens God is always GREATER! Even in death, “He is Life!” So how much more in life can you endure and overcome because you’re not alone but the Lord of Hosts Himself is on your side!

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
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Rom 8:31-39
31 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? 32 If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? 33 And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? 34 Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us — who was raised to life for us! — is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. 35 Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

36 They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

37 None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. 38 I'm absolutely convinced that nothing — nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, 39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
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So do not allow yourself to be “moved away from the hope of the gospel which you have heard!” The Good news is that God loves you. And because he loves you so much He has invited you to be part of His family and He always takes care of His own, no matter what! Come what may, recession, disaster, peril or death God has made provision even past our last breath. No need to worry or be afraid, God’s on your side He’s your Great Aid. He’s ever-present helping you, so hope in God, His Word is True!

Rom 15:13
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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