I felt very moved to write this and I hope it ministers to someone at some point somewhere. Do you remember being a child? How easy was it to have faith when we were children, to have all the confidence in the world that everything was going to be okay? Why can’t we have that faith today? As children, we put our hope in circumstances; summer was a taste of heaven, Saturday morning cartoons were the high point of the week, sleep overs...I can go on. Children are meant to be taught to have faith because it’s easy to believe when things are easy. I suspect this is why Jesus was so severe about "causing children to sin" and that it would be better for that person "to have a millstone around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea" (Matthew 18). As adults circumstances get a hold of us, cause cynicism, they steal our hope. However, Jesus said to enter the kingdom of God we must be like children - "unless you change and become like children you cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 18:3). He also said that the Father had hidden the mysteries of heaven from the "wise and the learned" and "revealed them to little children" (11:25). You are meant to have that faith and that hope throughout your life, but you can’t have it with anything here. We learn things as adults that start to break down our ability to trust and so Jesus tells us we must be born again. We must learn why we were ever given the ability to hope, to dream, and to believe. We were given these gifts to know our Father.


Anyone who claim to be completely pessimistic is lying to themselves. If you claim not to have hope, you’re simply putting your hope in your negative disposition thinking that that will somehow save you from pain. It won’t, and you know in your heart it isn’t sparing you from anything except truly being alive. God has faith in us, He is love and the bible says love "hopes all things" and "believes all things" (1 Corrinthians 13). We’re made in His image so we do have faith, we just misuse it. If God didn’t have hope for you He wouldn’t have created you, loved you, or came and died for you. Let’s start with where you are and ask yourself if anything here is worth all of your hope. Nothing sustains you more than hope but hope needs to be put into something, so why not take a step and have faith that He loves you. Why not put aside some of the things we think makes us "wise and learned" as adults and become like children and just approach Jesus? God said of Israel that they "do not cry out to Me from their hearts" that they "wail upon their beds" (Hosea 7). I’m not saying to be naive or ignorant, you’ve learned some hard lessons but instead of wailing about it to no avail, why not have faith that when you cry out to God because you know you need Him that He will hear you? Jesus desires to live in our hearts to restore our relationship based on hope and faith with our Father. What have you got to lose except the burden you know is getting too heavy?