Some people never change! But CAN they change? Throughout the years, I've met folks who believe that some people CAN'T change. They have even gone so far as to say that a death by their own hand would be preferable to clinging to some kind of fairy tale hopefulness. Well, my theme for this new mission plant is HOPE! I have witnessed the complete transformation of many of these so-called unchangeable lives. And it IS a sight to behold!
Take my friend, Nicholas, who's life was so down in the dumps with a video game addiction, that he wouldn't even get up to go to the bathroom. And now, a new man, he owns a home and has a great job!
Never give up hope! Hope means, "confident expectation." There is a Bible verse that says, "Hope that is seen is not hope." That means, we need to look at a man or woman, with all their battle wounds, and trust that healing is possible.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
-Alexander Pope,
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733
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Where we have failed or have become undone,
God has just begun.
Thanks, Darryl! That's beautiful.
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