Desire For Hope

Howard Hughes was a God-given genius. He became a billionaire with progressive ideas that advanced the aircraft and film industry, space, communications technology, electronics, and whatever else he set his mind too.

Hughes was consumed by his creativity. He hoped in himself, his ability, and his money. "For much of his life, he seemed larger than life, but his end could not have been sadder" (Albert Greenstein, www.socialhistory.org)

Guilt drove Howard Hughes to ritualistic hand washings, a phobia about germs, as well as paranoia and hypochondriac behavior. He, like Hemingway, did not use his genius to the glory of God and the good of himself.

Howard Hughes died tragically as a mad man.

The desire for hope is deep within us all. We can't get around it. It's always there. The image of God upon us causes us to long for happiness and completeness.

If we fill our lives with people and things, other than with Christ and the things He has selected for our good and His glory, sooner or later we will be miserable. Without Christ there is no purpose, no staying-power to protect and keep us when things fall apart.

Without Christ we have no true meaning and happiness in this life and in the life to come.

What about you? Perhaps you consider yourself a Christian, but your life is filled with depression and misery. Perhaps your desire for hope has diminished and you feel there is no hope.

Jesus says: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me"(John 14:16 NKJ).