Got Hope? #BlogParty2011

The Blog Party continues today with a little excerpt from Beth Guckenberger's book, Relentless Hope:

"The enemy sets traps for us all the time, waiting and watching for the fall. He uses our history, our present struggles, our fatigue and doubt, then adds someone else's sin and waits until we find ourselves in moments we couldn't have imagined--denying God three times or wrapped in someone else's arms or poking ourselves with a needle. And he gloats, thinking he's won.

What we can know for sure is that he couldn't be more wrong, or shortsighted. 

It might seem for a moment we are lost, but like a coin that gets found and a son who comes home, we praise a God who isnt' caught in the only chapter being read. He knows the ending.

Can we gain a seated-in-the-heavenlies perspective that mirrors his? Can we see missteps and/or discouragement as rocks we can stand on? Can those become not what we are embarrassed by but instead what we testify about?"

Hope really does change everything!

Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

Hebrews 10:23 NLT

P.S.

I can't wait for you all to meet AMY LYNCH REID who will be sharing about her story of Hope beginning tomorrow. You're sure to fall in love with her immediately, just as anyone does who meets her for the first time or knows her well. Thanks for coming to the party!