My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
- Bishop Keith Butler
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? (Job 17:15)
Job was at the bottom. Everything he had was gone. In the depth of that despair, he asked a question that honest people ask when they have been hit hard enough and long enough. “Where is my hope now? Who can even see it?” That sounds like the cry of a man who has lost everything, including the confidence that things will ever be right again. Job was voicing what the enemy most wants to accomplish in every believer's life.
The only reason people fully collapse is that they have lost hope, not because the circumstances were too hard or because God was not powerful enough, but because the foundation holding the expectation that God would come through was not deep enough to endure the storm. When hope goes, everything else goes with it. And the enemy knows that. That is why he attacks hope specifically and persistently.
There is an old hymn that has been sung in churches for generations. “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.” That song is a declaration of everything we have been walking through.
Your hope is not built on circumstances. It is not built on how things look right now. It is not built on relationships, finances, health reports, or anything this world offers. It MUST be built on Christ alone. Keep your hope alive. Real hope is rooted in the Word, anchored in what God said and who God is. That hope will not leave you dishonored or confounded. It will hold through what would destroy a life built on anything else. Stay in the Word, stay in prayer, and stay in the Spirit. And never, under any circumstances, let hope go.
Practical Application
Today, declare out loud where your hope is built. Say “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. On Christ the solid rock I stand.” Then, examine one place in your life where you have allowed hope to erode and decide to rebuild it on the Word. Bring it back. Keep your hope alive.
Psalm 16:9; Psalm 31:24