August 4, 2014 (Monday)
The song, “High Hopes,” written by J. Van Heusen and S. Cahn, and popularized by Frank Sinatra, is a cute song that tells about an ant moving a rubber tree plant and a ram butting down a big dam. The feats were impossible, but the ant and ram had high hopes, so they accomplished the impossible.
The message is clear: don’t give up hope, keep trying and your dreams will come true.
The followers of Jesus Christ have great reason to have hope. Peter told us about it when he wrote, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3-4).
We’ve heard or said, “As long as there is life, there is hope.” We can turn that around and it will be equally true: “As long as there is hope, there is life.”
Jesus taught us to dream big dreams and have high hopes. He said, “..with God nothing is impossible” (Luke 12:37).
What are your dreams? Your hopes? On what are you building your hope? Think of those questions the next time you sing this grand old hymn:
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.