HOPE
if there is one thing i consider to be the most important thing in my life, i can firmly say that it is HOPE.
what good is a life without hope? anyone living without hope lives a dead life, and would no longer look forward to their next tomorrow and the future. hope sees us through many difficult moments, and it helps many to live on, even when every breath of air seems like sheer torture. HOPE pulls both the weak and the strong along, be it a mother waking up one day to find a lump under her breast, or a retired man who has lost his life earnings to the crippled economy within a span of one night.
on my own accord, i headed to Good News Singapore event at Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday to find thousands of people gathered there for a common purpose. everybody, unified in one spirit, is in search of a hope they could hold on to despite the fraility of their faith. people who are wheelchair-bound, people who are plagued by incurable infirmities, are all in search of the light to their problems. so many people in their lowest point of desperation, are all seeking for some form of divine interventions.
the escalating suicidal and murder rates around the world only points to one thing. countless of people are losing sight of the hope and faith that keep them going. there seems to be nothing worthy to hold on to for these people. within 5 months of my residence in my new area, i have heard about 3 people, committting the grave sin of taking their own lives away by jumping out of their flats. it is truly heartbreaking to know that the world has just been growing more and more hopeless, colder and colder. hopelessness robs us of our sense and rationality. consequences of hopelessness have done nothing except for the damages inflicted on the people who are left behind to pick up the pieces.
altho i am in no position to preach, i am really glad for people who have chosen to turn to the Lord. at the very least, they have found their hope, they have something to cling on to, in hope for a better tomorrow. i myself, am not spared. i am looking for someone or something to hold on to as my one constant, which will keep me going tomorrow, the next month, and the following years ahead.
if there is one thing i pray that i will not be bereft of.
i pray that it is HOPE. without hope, i have nothing.
This Is Our God - Hillsong 2008