It’s what can pull us through the most unthinkable circumstances of life. Without it, the human spirit has nothing to call on that would help us rise above the plight of the human condition.

Author Ravi Zacharias writes, “Devoid of reasons for hope, people will create substitutes and follow cultic rituals they have devised in anticipation of realizing hope.”

We see it every day in lives that have been ravaged by drugs, alcohol, sex, suicide and anything else that would seem to give a temporary sense of relief from this painful absence of true hope. We see a culture telling our kids that indulging in these proclivities will make them feel “normal” and give them the excitement and fulfillment they are looking for, when in reality they are the very things that continue to dismantle these already fragile and broken hearts that so often have already come from fractured environments.

Last November, as a country we elected a candidate who campaigned on the premise that he was the “hope” the country so desperately needed. Millions of people around the globe have touted him as the leader that would usher in a new season of reason and civility. In droves, people turned out to support this man who is really still a mystery in many ways, and they did so because they are hungry for hope.

As we begin to see his leadership take shape and his administration emerge, it doesn’t take much to see that those things which he stood for so firmly during his campaign and the course of action he is taking now, has left many wondering if THIS was the change they actually voted for. It represents a priceless picture that man is not capable of existing as a constant.

There is only One who ever has and ever will. There is only One who can truly be our hope.

With the past election, I believe like many others, that we have crossed over into a new season. A season that will require us to lean on real Hope as we never have before...

The uncertainty of our nation’s security, a global financial crisis, a generation being convinced that there are no absolutes and that God really has no place in public life, should serve as a catalyst to drive us to cling to the only constant that has remained throughout history. And that is the hope that came to a young woman in the package of a baby, yet with the power of the universe in His tiny little hand. He brought light to dark places, hope to a hopeless world and the certainty that tomorrow can be filled with purpose for every precious human life! And He continues to do so today for everyone who will place their hope in Him. As Rick Warren ended his prayer at the inauguration, in Yeshua, Isa, Jesus, (pronounced in Spanish) Jesus..... lies our HOPE.

there is hope...