Topic: Hope From Within Or Hope From Without

Whether your hope comes from within you or outside of you, hope makes all the difference in the essence of your life. The hope you make visible now in your heart, mind, and soul can determine your health, wealth, and peace of mind. You can envision in your mind a hope for numerous persons, places, things, and situations. You can hold vast hopes within you. You can make specific plans to possess what you envision. However, all the hoping for external things and the planning activity to acquire these external things can take place in a spirit of selfish darkness. Without the Light providing internal hope, you may become financially wealthy but you can still be poor in spirit and in hope. Without the Light, you may have a healthy body but still have a sick spiritual heart and mind. Without the Light, you may have all the material trappings of life but you will not have real peace or joy. The Light, God, the spirit of the living God, brings us real peace and real joy regardless of the circumstances in life. Dreaming hoping for things external or material is not wrong. What is wrong is when you try to possess a material thing God does not want you to have. What is also wrong is the priority we give to material or external hopes and dreams. Life is smoother, more productive, more joyful, and happier if our first priority in life is to have internal hopes and dreams illuminated by the Light. When the external world outside of us takes priority over our God-inspired hearts, minds, and souls, then we are engaged in a spiritual war we cannot win at any cost.

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