O Omnipotent, Eternal, and Merciful God, I beg You, because of the holy wounds of Your Son, preserve in me the support of a living hope.  Sometimes my heart is tossed around like a ship on the sea.  Grant me the sure and firm anchor of hope (Romans 15:13; Hebrews 3:6; 6:19).  I ask You, the God of hope and all consolation (2 Corinthians 1:3), to hold me steady as I am tossed around by temptations and doubts.  The hope within me can be as sure and immovable as the truth of Your promises.  I depend on Your promises.  You will not leave me without help.  I trust in Your kindness.  You will not leave me without comfort.  I know in whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day (2 Timothy 1:12).  I am absolutely persuaded that You who have begun a good work in me will also complete it until the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6).

            Three things cause me to fall down before You in praise.  Three things calm my anxieties and give direction to my vacillating heart.  These three things are the love by which You adopted me as Your child, the truth of the promise, and the power to deliver what You have promised.  This is the rope of three strands that You send down from the heavenly kingdom to me in this prison so You may lift me up and draw me within sight of Your glory.  This hope is the anchor of my salvation (Hebrews 6:19).  This is the narrow way leading to paradise (Matthew 7:13-14).  Meditation on Your adoption makes me hope.  Meditation on Your promise brings peace to my heart when I hope.  Meditation on Your goodness prevents me from despairing of Your mercies.  Meditation on my feebleness prevents me from hoping in my power and merit.  The less my hope is fixed on the unstable and shifting sands of the temporal help of people or earthly things, the more firmly and surely it is established on the immovable and solid rock of Your promises and heavenly things.  Unite my heart with You so I increasingly draw myself away from the world and cling to You with my whole heart.

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