The word hope has been all over the place lately. I recently picked up a Rolling Stone magazine that chronicled all of the articles they’ve done on Obama as well as including several interviews and speech manuscripts. I was struck by a headline that had been on a previous Rolling Stone cover with Obama, hailing him “A new hope.” At first, I smiled, thankful for the idea of change, hope and optimism coming back to our government, but after that rolled around in my head for a moment I felt overwhelmed by the true sadness of the statement.
For so many in this country- and apparently all over the world- Barak Obama is their hope. They are looking to him to fix all the problems of the world today, to restore America to some idealistic memory of a perfection that we never were… they are looking to him to be their savior. To realize that broke my heart. It’s funny to think that in a place toted and attacked for being a Christian nation that we have lost site of our true hope. I won’t lie, I got caught up in the Obama hype- I would love to see the change that he campaigned so strongly about happen. I would be amazed and so proud to see our nation lose its segregations and prejudices and unite as one. I’d be even more amazed and proud to see this happen in the world… but I do realize how idealistic these thoughts are. I also realize that Obama has a long road ahead of him, all uphill.
What I’ve come to conclude by all the thoughts of Obama and Hope is that its time to turn to our true hope. Its time to focus on the truth that comes in following Christ and knowing that He will work things out for His glory- a hard truth for me to lean on, I rarely feel any sort of certainty that I even begin to know what that means… but a truth none-the-less. God is our hope. Christ was and is the only true savior, our only true hope. Let us rest in that and pray that He would be the one to guide our new president.
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