Hope: Opens The Way When There Seems No Way

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What is it about hope that makes it so important? Why did Jesus put it up there alongside faith and love? Maybe it is as simple as this: Even when it is fragile and desperately clung to, hope is the expectation that what is wanted can be had. Hope believes that events will turn out for the best, that there is a secure future, that good will prevail.
     As you will soon discover, Norman Vincent Peale put the same emphasis on hope that Jesus did, and the chapter topics that we have selected for this booklet are what he believed to be hope's vital components. In just a few moments you will hear Dr. Peale urge you to turn the old saying "where there is life there is hope" around. He preferred: "Where there is hope there is life."
     How right he was. For, as the Bible tells us, "We are saved by hope." Never more than now do we need to be hopeful.
     Hope rises above hard economic times, the perception that our society's values are eroding and the specter of war. If you hope, you will inspire another to hope, and then others will follow. Hold fast to hope and make it marvelously contagious!
     Confide your deepest hopes to God, believe that he will hear them and deliver back what is best for you.
     Nothing defeats hope.

God bless you.

Ted Nace
Vice President of Ministries
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