In times when everything looks impossible, dark and God seem to be far from us just as in the life of Job, we still need to keep hope alive and have a confident expectation that God will surely come through for us.
For there is hope for a tree If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root may grow old in the earth, And its stump may die in the ground, 9 Yet at the scent of water, it will bud And bring forth branches like a plant.
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”