Our Hope is in You Alone!

Let your unfailing love surround us, LORD,
    for our hope is in you alone.

—Psalm 33:22 (NLT)

Loving and Merciful LORD,

Let it be that I would place all of my hope in You, LORD—as You faithfully surround me with Your unfailing love.

Teach me not to place my hope in my possessions.  Help me to understand that what I have is not my own, but Yours alone—and remind me that if it were all stripped away from me today, I would have lost nothing, because I still have You, the One who is everything to me.

Teach me not to place my hope in other people.  Help me to see that other people are human and—just like me—they sometimes disappoint, they sometimes fail, and they sometimes let you down.  Remind me that even if everyone else abandoned me, You would still be with me always.

Teach me not to place my hope in my position or in my own strength.  Help me to see that any position or strength that I have was given by Your hand—to be used for Your glory and not my own—and that even if I was removed from my position and all strength was drained from me, You would still uphold me in Your everlasting arms.

Let it be that I would place all of my hope in You, LORD—as You faithfully surround me with Your unfailing love.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.