YOU ARE MY HOPE

There is an ancient road from Jerusalem

to Jericho that was a narrow, treacherous

path along a deep gorge in the Judean

Wilderness.  It’s known as the valley

of the shadow, for this was probably the

location that inspired David’s 23^rd Psalm. 

It’s bleak and perilously steep.  It’s a

good place for thieves, but not for anyone

else.  When David wrote “Yea, though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil” (Psalm 23:4) he was in a

place where evil was an ever-present reality. 

Yet he refused to give in to fear.  David was

saying that the presence of God gave him

confidence to pass through difficult places.

Hope comes not from strength, intelligence,

or favorable circumstances, but from the Lord.

Sunday Sermon:  

         Dealing With Life’s Worst

                 Case Scenarios

                    Job 3:25-26