Obstacles are things a person sees, when we take your eyes off Gods promise

Positive Power Card; Obstacles are things a person sees, when you take your eyes off your goal

My Wife , Elsabe, worked a night shift at Netcare Hospital, Kuilsriver. This morning she admitted a young girl of +- 13 years with symptoms of post traumatic stress. Why? Her mother was killed early last night.

The event is told as follows (hearsay);
The mother was in a hurry to pick up her daughter. She entered their garage, sliding open the garage door that runs on a sliding channel, somewhat elevated from the floor of the garage. She started to reverse their bakkie out of the garage, but felt something, hindering her to reverse properly. She open her driver door, and whilst still seated, she hung out with her top half of her body, trying to see underneath the bakkie what was was the hinderance. At that time, she supposedly wanted to apply the brakes, but instead pressed down on the accelerator. The bakkie reversed in high speed and the door jammed, snapping her neck.

This is an awful realization of live; you will die, no matter what you may do or not do. It can happen in years, it can be next month, it can be today, it can be within the next few minutes.

If our future is not secured and satisfied by God then we are going to be excessively anxious. This results either in paralyzing fear or in self-managed, greedy control. We end up thinking about ourselves, our future, our problems and our potential, and that keeps us from believing!.

The Biblical definition of "hope" is "confident expectation." Hope is a firm assurance regarding things that are unclear and unknown
(Romans 8:23-25) (23) However, not only creation groans. We, who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts, also groan inwardly. We groan as we eagerly wait for our adoption, the freeing of our bodies from sin. (24) We were saved with this hope in mind. If we hope for something we already see, it's not really hope. Who hopes for what can be seen? (25) But if we hope for what we don't see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Hope is a fundamental component of the life of the righteous .
Pro 23:18 There is indeed a future, and your hope will never be cut off.

Without hope, life loses its meaning
Rom 15:13 May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Christian hope is when God has promised that something is going to happen and you put your trust in that promise. Christian hope is a confidence that something will come to pass because God has promised it will come to pass.

So let's look away from the circumstances that confront us, look to Christ, look to the promises, and hold fast to them. Hope comes from the promises of God rooted in the work of Christ.

My Spiritual translation then; Obstacles are things a person sees, when we take your eyes off Gods promise

Father in heaven, I pray for Your love and caring for the family in all ways possible. Thank you Lord, for Your love. Guide us to persevere in faith and the hope given to us through Jesus Christ. I pray this through Jesus Christ, our Saviour.