Topic: What Is The Source Of Hope?

Hope is experienced within us. Hope can be triggered by the faintest thought or remotest of ideas. The trigger, source, or spark generating hope can come from either internal or external sources. External hope is the hope you generate by envisioning persons, places, things, or situations external to your inner person. For example, you can develop an idea for a new product or invention then decide to pursue a dream associated with your idea. You can have hope for a new job, a new relationship, or a new career. External hope is experienced inside of you but external hope comes from looking outside of yourself to new circumstances you want and expect to happen. Hope is underpinned or supported by a road map you draw and follow to make the hope a reality. Because external hope is tied to persons, places, things, or situations outside of your being, external hope can vanish in an instant when adversity and darkness strike. However, there is another kind of hope. This other kind of hope is internal hope. Internal hope is also experienced within our inner persons but the spark generating internal hope comes from the Light, the love, and the very essence of God shining within us. Internal hope is the ultimate hope. Internal ultimate hope has caused nearly all men and women to believe in a Creator. Internal ultimate hope comes from the Light. Internal ultimate hope is a power resulting in our being persons who are giving, kind, long-suffering, and with the willingness to bear up under every circumstance. Darkness and adversity can wipe out all of our external hope, but darkness cannot prevail against the ultimate internal hope we receive from the Light of Christ who is the Light of the world.

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