Hope pt.2 - Maintaining Consciousness.

The first part of this blog talked with how we are all hoping for something and that we are all somehow searching for God in so many different ways.  Yes hope is a great thing.  Now I want to talk about how hope can be bad.

So many people just try to maintain consciousness.  They want to get by and stay under the radar.  Somehow they did something that caused them to run in fear from the their conscience.  These people dont want to face reality, they dont face their guilty conscience.  In desperation, they look for something, some small thing to give them hope and to give them a reason to just get by till tomorrow.  Tomorrow they can find something else to live off of and hope for.  They hope that their deeds wont come into light, they hope to stay in the darkness.  

Its a miserable existence really, I know because I lived it once upon a time.  I anxiously awaited what would come next and I dove into it so that I could hide from my guilt, but guilt never goes away that easily.  There is only one way to a clean conscience and somehow deep inside we know the way to that path.  

Yet some people dont want to take that path.  They take comfort in knowing that just outside there is bright sunshine.  Some take comfort that salvation is right around the corner.  To them, their comfort and hope comes from knowing there is hope or that there is salvation but its not found in being saved and it doesnt come from actually being free.  Its a prison and its not pretty.

I say take a good look at your life and see what you are doing just to fill in the gaps, trying to avoid the inevitable.  Dont shy away from the light, its there for a reason.