My post last night was missing something. Something crucial. And that is this:

There is hope. 

There are horrible injustices in the world everywhere we look. Human trafficking, racial inequality, torn-apart families, suicide, addiction, depression, physical and emotional abuse, bullying, starvation, car accidents, to name a few. Seeing that list, it can be so easy to feel like you’re suffocating in a world of pure evil. And while it may feel like that most days… There. Is. Hope.

What hope could there possibly be?

While I was part of a dance production that was bringing awareness to the sex slave trade, I was consistently asked one question:

How can we put a stop to it?

My answer was, and is, that we can’t. Not in this lifetime. The only way to stop it is to put an end to evil and sinful human nature. And what person, or group of people, powerful as they may be, could even begin to do that? Anyone?

Actually, yes. There is one. There is hope.

There is a man who has the power and authority to right all the wrongs of mankind. To bring hope to the hopeless. To bring justice to the wicked. To rescue the persecuted. His name is Jesus Christ and he is coming back for us, to save us and bring us home with him.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”  And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.  The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.  But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”    -Revelations 21:1-8

He is coming. Don’t give up hope. Someday he will bring healing, justice, peace, comfort, joy.

That is how I can face horrors like this and not have it destroy me. I have hope in something greater than myself. Hope that these atrocities will not go on forever.

Hope is a beautiful thing.