The best realignment you can make regarding "hope" is to read Hebrews 11 and place yourself at the most acute crisis point in that passage. And then compare your attitude and reactions to your disappointments with how those folks of the faith responded to God and others when things went sideways for them.
One of the most vital things we will ever do after God regenerates us is to bolster our understanding and practice of suffering. If we don't have a solid view and practice of suffering, it will diminish our hope, making us cranky, cynical, and hopeless. Suffering reveals the condition of our souls. https://lifeovercoffee.com/reflective-study-on-victimhood-and-the-need-for-hope/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
