Pastor Claude Thomas Blog

Author: Pastor Claude Thomas

What is the adversity that threatens your hope? Is it…
The adversity of a bank account down to zero…and the bills keep coming in…
The adversity of a life-threatening illness… and it doesn’t seem to be getting better…
The adversity caused by poor choices in your relationships…and the loss of the trust of those you care for the most…
Is it the adversity of kids rebelling…and you’re doing your best…
Is it the adversity of a marriage about to crash…and you don’t see any hope of it being better…

Is it the adversity of a dead-end job and you hate getting up in the morning but you are holding on just to keep paying the bills?

These are real adversities. And adversity in life can threaten our hope.

What are we to do? Are we supposed to just give in and live hopeless, despondent lives? NO! NO! NO! Rather than give in we are to look up and discover hope in life through faith in God.

You see… God Is Our Hope in Adversity. At face value, this might seem like too simple an answer. “God is our hope in adversity!” Yeah right! And some of us today might be thinking that.

So, I want to challenge us to look at the experience of the great leader of Israel and writer of so much of the Psalms. At one point in his life he was barefoot, exiled, humiliated, broke, cut off from society, and very, very sad. For all practical purposes, the whole scene seemed to be one of hopelessness. What did David do? Look at Psalm 3. Rather than giving up and giving in to hopelessness he says, “But You, O LORD…” David turned to Jehovah God.

What should you and I do when our hope is threatened? Turn to God!