Hope

What a wonderful word, and one that I think God has been using to speak to me lately. I see all the suffering in this world and at times it just seems so much. I think especially of the orphans. So many orphans, so much suffering. It breaks my heart that these orphans suffer, but I cannot just focus on the suffering. Because there is also so much good. God is calling people to love orphans and they are responding to His call. Wonderful organizations like Shohannah's Hope are serving orphans. Youth are going on mission trips and helping to build orphanages and love on the orphans. Couples are becoming foster parents, families are adopting. He is calling people. There is hope.

God has not forgotten the orphans. He sees them, He hears their cries. He is always with them, He will not abandon them. I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the causef the needy. -Psalm 140:12 God is there, He is working on their behalf, even when I cannot see it. There is hope.

Because of Jesus there is always hope. Better days are coming. My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes in undisturbed places of rest. -Is. 32:11 A day is coming! And while they are here they do not have to suffer alone. Jesus is with them. God is calling people to care for them, and He has a future for them. They are not alone, and they are not forgotten by the Father in Heaven. I can no longer be with the orphans in Nepal. but God is and He is working.
There is hope. I see it in their smiles.