What Hope for the Godless?

The People of God Set Priorities
Hope and Confidence Come from God
Hope for a New Day

Job 27:8-12

The Message

^7-10 “Let my enemy be exposed as wicked!
    Let my adversary be proven guilty!
What hope do people without God have when life is cut short?
    when God puts an end to life?
Do you think God will listen to their cry for help
    when disaster hits?
What interest have they ever shown in the Almighty?
    Have they ever been known to pray before?

^11-12 “I’ve given you a clear account of God in action,
    suppressed nothing regarding God Almighty.
The evidence is right before you. You can all see it for yourselves,
    so why do you keep talking nonsense?

 
For Reflection

The godless have little hope that is based on anything but their own devices.  It is an empty hope.  It is a hopelessness that engenders hopelessness.  It is a hopelessness that is masked by self-deception.  God suffers with them and will answer their authentic call for hope beyond their desperation.

 

Pray

pray for those whose false hope betrays them.  Pray that they will find eternal hope in the living God. pray that you will not be seduced by the false hope in self-control.