Hope

" ...Let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him... We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them. The disciples...had done a downright unthinkable thing -- they had gone to sleep instead of watching with Jesus. But our Lord came to them taking the spiritual initiative against their despair and said, in effect, 'Get up, and do the next thing.' If we are inspired by God, what is the next thing? It is to trust Him absolutely and to pray on the basis of His redemption. Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step." -- Oswald Chambers