This week we are continuing our four part 'D' word series. Our focus will be on the dangerous word of Despair. Despair is not sadness, grief, or heart shattering pain. It is the "utter loss of hope." (Webster dictionary)
Life will always bring crosses and we have every right to feel sad, angry, and frustrated by what has happened to us. God, however, has given us the great virtue of hope to keep us from despair. Jesus came to be the hope that every heart needs. Christ is hope. He can handle our anger, He hurts for our brokenness, and weeps alongside our tears, but to live in despair means we no longer live in His hope.
Saint John Paul the Great said, "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song!"
Lastly, 2 Cor 4:16-18 says:
"Therefore, we are not despair; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal."
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