Hope

"My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is now doing for me. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen." - Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is about me and there is no hope that can be found in me or in what I can do. My attention is on Him and what He has done and will do. I am nothing without Christ. God, keep me near the cross. Amen.