I opened up my news feed this morning and the headlines read: “Doctors keep discovering new ways COVID-19 attacks body,” “Predicted death toll rises with states reopening,” and “7 new virus symptoms that are surprising doctors.”
That was just the headlines. That does not include the news of politics, polls, reopening clashes, food chain safety, fear, murder, and death numbers. The way we describe what we see daily in the headlines could be with the one word, “hopeless.”
But the media, remember, is designed to report the worst. Reporters are looking for the latest scoop, constantly trying to one up each other. Each news report must be escalated to grab attention away from another network or commentator. Since we are a people who have an aversion to reading and research, we only see the headlines and think we know the entire story. So, yes, “hopeless” seems very appropriate for today.
Unless you are a Christian. Our daily news report is governed by the word “hope.”
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” [Heb 10:23]
We profess hope. We hold to the hope we profess. Our God is a God of Hope. He has made promises to us and He is faithful to every promise He made. In this world today, Christians should be a living, professing, action of hope. Everyone else might succumb to the hope-less headlines, but we should know better.
We serve an Almighty, Wonderful, Good, Faithful, True God. This world and its headlines are temporary, and shall all pass away, but the God we cling to will faithfully love and care for us for all eternity. Now that’s hope.
