Keep Your Hope Alive

Discovering A Better Life
P.O Box 1540, Albany Western Australia 6331
Phone/Fax: (08) 98 418 418
E-mail: abl-alb@omninet.net.au

Keep Your HOPE Alive!
Hope! It keeps you excited about the future - whatever your age - and therefore about he present. Remember Winston Churchill’s famous five-word speech? - “Never, never, never give up!” BUT IT ISN’T EASY TO HAVE HOPE True! Life isn’t always fair. You’ve learned that the heard way, haven’t you? I’m sure you’ve read about hat wealthy rancher who had such heartbreaking bad luck. Within one nightmarish twenty-four hour period he plummeted from prosperity to poverty, from happiness to heartache. First, a gang of rustlers savagely murdered his farm-hands and stole his livestock. Then he received the crushing news that every one of his children, all ten of them-had been killed in a tornado. It still wasn’t over. Within hours after burying his children, he came down with shingles. Well, really it was worse than shingles. Painful sores covered his body from foot to scalp. The sores ruptured and scabbed over. The wounds festered and worms bred in the putrefying flesh. Adding to his agony, his wife nagged and his friends lied about him. How do you explain it? He was a God-fearing man. He never turned away anyone in need. He was benevolent, thoughtful, and kind. Highly respected and sincerely loved. Unleashing his misery he said that he wished he had never been born, and he begged God to let him die. “Who can see any hope for me?” he asked. He was hurt, angry with God, yet he had trusted Him for sho long that he couldn’t turn away. “I will hope in him,” he said. Eventually his hope was rewarded “…the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before…The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first.”(Job 42:10, 12) My friend, as hard as it is to understand, bad things do happen to good people. But don’t give up hope! Hope is the handle which gives you a grip on life and on God. One more thing… The New Testament had something very, very big in mind when it spoke of hope. Not something depending on easy times and painless life, but on resurrection and endless life… "In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a LVING HOPE through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade…” (1 Peter 1:3-4) My friend, if you’re a little down-and out right now, having a hard time feeling excited about your future, overwhelmed by your pain or your past, let me give you a line to remember…a line of Scripture which explains the indomitable spirit of Abraham… "For Abraham, when hope was gone, he hoped in faith” (Romans 4:18) Hope on, my friend! If you feel the need of some help in keeping your hope alive, I’ve a small booklet, “7 Ways God Can Help You Be Happier” that you might find helpful. It won’t cost you anything, just write to me with your request and I’ll send it to you by return mail: P.O. Box 1540, Albany WA 6331. If you prefer, you can phone/fax me on (08) 98 418 418. Email me or write to me at P.O Box 1540, Albany W.A 6331. Telephone / Fax (08) 98 418 418

Keep Your HOPE Alive!

Hope! It keeps you excited about the future - whatever your age - and therefore about he present. Remember Winston Churchill’s famous five-word speech? - “Never, never, never give up!”

BUT IT ISN’T EASY TO HAVE HOPE

True! Life isn’t always fair. You’ve learned that the heard way, haven’t you?

I’m sure you’ve read about hat wealthy rancher who had such heartbreaking bad luck. Within one nightmarish twenty-four hour period he plummeted from prosperity to poverty, from happiness to heartache.

First, a gang of rustlers savagely murdered his farm-hands and stole his livestock. Then he received the crushing news that every one of his children, all ten of them-had been killed in a tornado.

It still wasn’t over. Within hours after burying his children, he came down with shingles. Well, really it was worse than shingles. Painful sores covered his body from foot to scalp. The sores ruptured and scabbed over. The wounds festered and worms bred in the putrefying flesh. Adding to his agony, his wife nagged and his friends lied about him.

How do you explain it? He was a God-fearing man. He never turned away anyone in need. He was benevolent, thoughtful, and kind. Highly respected and sincerely loved.

Unleashing his misery he said that he wished he had never been born, and he begged God to let him die.

“Who can see any hope for me?” he asked. He was hurt, angry with God, yet he had trusted Him for sho long that he couldn’t turn away. “I will hope in him,” he said. Eventually his hope was rewarded

“…the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before…The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first.”(Job 42:10, 12)

My friend, as hard as it is to understand, bad things do happen to good people. But don’t give up hope! Hope is the handle which gives you a grip on life and on God.

One more thing…
The New Testament had something very, very big in mind when it spoke of hope. Not something depending on easy times and painless life, but on resurrection and endless life…

"In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a LVING HOPE through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade…” (1 Peter 1:3-4)

My friend, if you’re a little down-and out right now, having a hard time feeling excited about your future, overwhelmed by your pain or your past, let me give you a line to remember…a line of Scripture which explains the indomitable spirit of Abraham… "For Abraham, when hope was gone, he hoped in faith” (Romans 4:18)

Hope on, my friend! If you feel the need of some help in keeping your hope alive, I’ve a small booklet, “7 Ways God Can Help You Be Happier” that you might find helpful. It won’t cost you anything, just write to me with your request and I’ll send it to you by return mail: P.O. Box 1540, Albany WA 6331. If you prefer, you can phone/fax me on (08) 98 418 418.

Email me
or write to me at
P.O Box 1540,
Albany W.A 6331.

Telephone / Fax (08) 98 418 418