Future Hope

Proverbs 24:13-16 – Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste. Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous, do not plunder their dwelling place; for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

Psalm 9:18 – But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.

Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Proverbs 1:11-16 – If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul; let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder; cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths; for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.

Application:

• ·         Those who forget God will come to nothing, but the needy and afflicted will not be forgotten by God.
• ·         God is the ultimate source of both prosperity and disaster.
• ·         A major enticement that confronts young men that is an example of the way of folly—getting rich by exploiting others.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV