What is Your Hope In?

So many people nowadays are putting all their hope in temporal things such as money, popularity, fame, relationships,and the list could go on and on. Now I'm not saying that any of these things are bad or anything like that, but they can become bad when they take our focus off of God and we place them before God in our lives. And placing anything before God in our lives is a very dangerous thing called idolatry. Idolatry is defined in Websters Dictionary as the worship of a physical object or a imperfect, sinful person as god."All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame"(Isaiah 44:9 ESV). I came across a quote from John Calvin that describes what happens when we put things or people in front of God in our lives.

“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain”

As Christians, our hope needs to be in our Lord Jesus Christ and nothing or no one else. Having a relationship with God because of what Jesus Chris for us by dying on the Cross for our sins is the only thing that will ever satisfy us completely.

Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you(Psalm 33:22)

And now, O LORD, for what do I wait? My hope is in you (Psalm 39:7)

...if riches increase, set not your heart on them (Psalm 62:10)

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
(Romans 5:1-5 ESV)