HOPE
Hope Not to be Placed in Creatures
CHARGE the rich of this world not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, (Who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy.) (1 Tim. vi. 17.)
Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish. Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. Who keepeth truth forever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong; who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: the Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just. The Lord keepeth the strangers, He will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners He will destroy. The Lord shall reign forever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation. (Ps. cxlv. 3-10.)
All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred. (Eccles. ix. 1.)
Hope Relies on God Alone
MY children, behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded. (Ecclus. iv. 11.)
I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me. My help is from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. (Ps. cxx. 1, 2.)
It is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God. (Ps. lxxii. 28.)
