The Eagle, Our Aspiration of Hope

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Day 36 and 37
In my book, The Lion Tree, Eagle portrays hope and he is the one who gives Darian and Cassidy hope after they had failed again and again.

“Don’t think that your situation is hopeless. God can’t help you if you think that way,” Eagle said firmly.  “When your plans don’t work out, you always have three choices. First, you can say, ‘This is never going to work out and I’m not going to try anymore.’ Secondly, you can think, ‘I am just unlucky so I’ll live with failure.’  Your third choice is to have hope. God gave us the choice to hope and trust Him that everything will turn out well.  If you keep going, you find the answer.  Just like real faith never dies, real hope never dies.” Eagle’s words of encouragement drove Darian and Cassidy to keep trying and finally, finally succeed.

We all need hope.  Hope drives us to even attempt to succeed in our endeavors in life or in business and even in our relationships.  We hope to enjoy life, we hope to have warm friendships, and we hope to make a lot of money.  Our relationship with God is based on hope too.

When we look at our world today we tend to ask ‘Where is God anyway?’  Disasters and crime are the order of the day. But God warns us it will be like this. “And because of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold.” Matthew 24:12 NKJV.  We will tend to lose hope.

Our greatest hope is that Christ is returning to take us with Him and we will be with Him in heaven forever. This is one hope that will never disappoint us.

 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven …and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Matthew 24: 30 NJKV

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I want to walk with you spiritually this year, inviting you to read the Bible through from cover to cover; from Genesis 1 all the way to Revelation 22:21.  If that sounds too difficult for you and your kids, you can join in again after you have taken a break or join us for the days you’re up to it.  We will start on Sunday, January 18th and finish Saturday, January 16, 2010.  I promise that you will understand the Bible in a much deeper way if you read it through from cover to cover in a year’s time.

Accept my challenge to read the Bible through in one year chronologically, including the Old and the New Testament.

I’m going to give you an extra challenge for the next few days only. We need to read 2 days readings each day until we catch up on the right day of the year, so we can finish by December 31, 2009. 

Day 36: Today read:
Exodus 21:22-23:13
Matthew 24:1-28
Psalm 29:1-11
Proverbs 7:6-23

Day 37:
Exodus 23:14-25:40
Matthew 24:29-51
Psalm 30:1-12
Proverbs 7:24-27

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