"When you trust God with your future, hope naturally abounds."

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus (2006-08-29) from his book, Uprising (Kindle Locations 1807-1808). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

As I have mentioned here many times, I am now retired. I was for many years paid to be good now I am good for nothing. What I mean by that is I am a retired pastor. I am no longer paid to be responsible for a group of people. But I am this week doing one of those duties that goes along with being a pastor, I am doing a funeral of a very special friend not out of responsibility but out of deep love for his family.

Now death is one of those problem areas even if you are a Christian but especially if you are not. I mean from this side it is so final. There seems to be no hope. They’re gone and we will never see them again. But the reality is when you trust God with your future, hope naturally abounds. I mean He says that He is preparing a place for us and therein is our hope. This life is not the final story there is another place and even when someone goes on ahead of us, if they have and we have a relationship with God through His Son then we will see Him and we will see them again.

I have a hope because of my trust in God to see my dad again, to see my father and mother-in-law again, to see Doug again and so many others again.

Yes saying, “Good bye” to my friend, Doug will be tough but someday I will see Him again.

So what is your hope built on?

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