WHERE IS YOUR HOPE?

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PAINTING BY GEORGES DE LA TOUR

JOB SPEAKING TO HIS WIFE




My life's outlook  would be filled 
with depression  if I had no hope. 
I could expect or want something 
to happen if I relied on the world. 

My life is rewarding  because my 
hope is in God. He is perfect and 
loves me unconditionally. 


LIFE LESSON:


SCRIPTURES IN JOB SHOW YOU, 
THERE IS NO HOPE WITHOUT GOD:


JOB 8:11-14

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“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the reeds flourish without water?
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While it is yet green and not cut down,
It withers before any other plant.
13
So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,
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Whose confidence shall be cut off,
And whose trust is a spider’s web.


JOB 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And they shall not escape, And their hope—loss of life!”


JOB 27:7-9

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“May my enemy be like the wicked,
And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
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For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
Though he may gain much,
If God takes away his life?
9
Will God hear his cry
When trouble comes upon him?

JOB 31:21-23 

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If I have raised my hand against the fatherless,
When I saw I had help in the gate;
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Then let my arm fall from my shoulder,
Let my arm be torn from the socket.
23
For destruction from God is a terror to me,
And because of His magnificence I cannot endure.

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