HOPE FATIGUE
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like Hope is under attack?
It seems as though everywhere we turn; we’re being told how hopeless things are; fuel, food, finances, faith, its all about to run out! They say.
But why would Hope be under attack?
Are you familiar with the phrase; don’t get weary in well doing?
Do you know what it means?
How could somebody get tired of doing good? Is that even possible?
It sounded confusing to me, that is, until I looked at it another way.
Think about it like this; Don’t lose a race that you are already winning!
Now do you get it?
Allow me to show you what I saw.
The only way that you can lose a race that you are already wining is if you start watching the other runners or the crowd. You allow yourself to get distracted, and then you start losing.
Likewise, the only way that you can become weary or fatigued, when you’re doing well, is if you start listening to all the hopeless reports that are out there. You become distracted!
Now do you see why Hope is being attacked?
Have you ever been feeling really good and then you sat down to listen to, or watch the news and then suddenly you felt drained or depressed? That’s because Hope was being attacked! It was under siege.
You forgot to secure your Hope. You left the gate open. Gate open? Yes, you left your ear gate and your eye gate unsecured. You left it open for anything to come in.
You secure you home, you secure your vehicle, you secure your money. Why wouldn’t you secure your Hope?
Previously I said, Keep Hope Alive, well the only way that you can do that is if you Protect Hope!
How do I protect Hope?
Guard your Heart! Hope, is in your heart, and things enter your heart through a gate; the eye or ear gate.
So to Guard your Hope, you must Guard your Heart! And to Guard your Heart, you must Guard your Hope!
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What is it saying? What it saw and heard.
Let not your heart be troubled? Why would it be troubled? Because it began believing what you listened to and looked at.
The heart will believe whatever you tell it! Now think about that for a minute….
Don’t lose Hope! We can’t afford to Lose Hope! Hope is all we have.
Hope is the wheels that Faith is riding on. When you Stop Hoping then you stop moving!
Without Hope you’ll never get up off the couch. Without Hope you’ll be afraid to go outside. Without Hope you’ll never Believe again!
That’s why Hope is under attack!
When I say Hope Fatigue, I am not saying that you are ready to give up and throw in the towel.
I am saying that you are tired/exhausted and need some rest.
You get fatigued when you are doing too much.
You doing too much! Trying to be there for everyone. Trying to be their Hope! Do you think that you don’t need rest?
Don’t get weary in well doing.
You get fatigued when you’re carry more than you should.
You are allowing Hope to get worn down!
Are you Hoping for some things that you should be Trusting in?
Hope impacts Trust, which is like the pressure in the tires that the wheels of Faith requires.
No Hope. No Trust. No Faith.
Hope keeps you moving forward.
Trust actively steady’s your balance.
Faith fuels your deep conviction that doesn’t require proof because it runs off Trust.
No Hope. No Trust. No Faith!
#Keep it Moving!
This is a Thompson Truth
