And the waters parted

Hope is truly the source of abundant life.  I feel like everything around me recently has been pointing to this truth.  Our world is desperate for hope.  The student in Dave's class whose mother attempted suicide is desperate for hope.  The couple at our church who continues to suffer through infertility and loss is desperate for hope.  Parents whose children have gone astray are desperate for hope.  The homeless, hungry, hurting, lost....you fill in the blank- they are all desperate for hope.  I believe that we all have points in our life where we need a God moment. We need the hope that God will show up and do something amazing. 
Moses needed a God moment as Pharaoh's army was closing in on the Israelites and they had no where to go, but into the sea.  Moses had hope that God was big enough, and the waters parted.  Joshua needed a God moment when he was leading the people into the promise land, and they had to cross the overflowing Jordan river with the arch of the covenant.  Joshua had hope that God would provide, and the river bed dried up. 
Although, I am convinced that sometimes it is not the result that saves, but simply the hope. 
There has to be hope that there is more than what this world can offer.  Proverbs 13:12  says "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."  I have seen a lot of heart sick people whose hope has been deferred because it has been placed anywhere besides in Christ.  The world has let them down, people have let them down, and now they have lost hope.  Hope in Christ, the living God, who is coming back for us, and has a place in eternity for us is a longing that will be fulfilled.  We can cling to that for life.  I ache to share that hope with the youth in my church who say "I have lost my way and don't know if I believe in God, my life is a mess."
Psalm 130:5 "I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope."  We can offer hope through God's word.  His word will never let us down.  His word is a safe place to trust our hope to.  I think what struck me the most is that I am here on Earth to be a God moment for people who are desperate for one.  Not me, as in what I have to offer, but the hope that is in me because I know Christ.  I have the opportunity to meet people who are desperate for hope everyday, and the salvation that I have in Christ should overflow and run into their barren lives.  Romans 15:13 "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."  When I have my hope in the right place it will overflow and be used as a God moment in other people's lives.  That is huge.

Romans 8:23-25  ".... We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently."  My hope is in my adoption into the kingdom of God as one of his children.  I was given hope when I was saved.  I look forward to the day that Christ will return and take me to Heaven.  I can wait patiently because I know He will return. 
We are standing at the sea of life waiting for God to part the waters....Dave is getting ready to graduate, and to find a job in this economy the sea will have to part.  We are aching for a family, and in order for us to have children the sea will have to part.  I wonder if I am in the right place with my career, and in order to serve where I am meant to be with a joyful heart the sea will have to part.  The blessing is that even if the sea never opens I will never lose hope.  There are so many people out there who need a hope that cannot be lost.  How can we be their God moment?