Hope For The Future

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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. 

Proverbs 13:12

How’s your heart? Is it sick? Is it filled with hope?

Hope — It’s a simple word, but it has powerful ramifications. It’s the difference between being eager or apathetic to start the day. It’s the difference between showing love or apathy in your relationships. It’s the difference between being thoughtful and making a plan or being ill prepared. It’s the difference of cherishing your life or ending it.

I don’t know about you, but lately my heart has felt sick. I’ve felt beat down and worn out. Hope has felt deferred. As I am reflecting on the condition of my soul, the issue is glaring. My hope has been misplaced. I’ve put my hope in myself — that I alone am the solution to every problem — whether it’s the corona virus or an unresolved conflict with a person I love.

Hope — True Hope — Hope that persists through a health report from a doctor. Hope that persists through broken relationships. Hope that is constant through financial stress. Hope that surpasses all human understand. This kind of hope can only come from the inherent understanding that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our Creator is in wildly in love with us. He purses, restores, and guides us. 

The LORD delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love.

Psalm 147:11

His unfailing love for me is the reason I’m going to wake up tomorrow. It’s the reason I’m can to live modestly but meaningfully. The reason I am saving, investing, and giving. It’s the reason I’m going to serve my family, and my clients well, and do it for the glory of God.

Ryan De Amicis

Wealth Advisor