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God never leaves us without the tools or the methods to get back the things we lost, like hope. If someone has lost hope, the Bible has answers. Often in the Psalms, we see David working on getting hope back. One of the first things we see him doing is to talk to himself about the goodness of God amid his situation.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? 

And why are you disquieted within me? 

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him 

For the help of His countenance. … 

Why are you cast down, O my soul? 

And why are you disquieted within me? 

Hope in God; 

For I shall yet praise Him, 

The help of my countenance and my God. (Psalms 42:5, 11)

We must remember that our hope does not come from situation, people, money, food, clothes, or material things. It comes from the only true source of hope: God the Father. He is the one we draw from and He will never run out.

I would have lost heart, unless I had believed 

That I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. 

Wait on the Lord;

Be of good courage, 

And He shall strengthen your heart; 

Wait, I say, on the Lord! (Psalms 27:13-14)

As we spend time waiting for God, we find hope reviving. 

…the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints… (Eph. 1:18).

As we immerse ourselves in the word of God, especially the lives of the men and women God used in the Old Testament, we can learn from their failures and successes, and find hope for our journeys.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. … Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:4,13)

Whatever was written beforehand is meant to instruct us in how to live. The Scriptures impart to us encouragement and inspiration so that we can live in hope and endure all things. … Now may God, the inspiration and fountain of hope, fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy and perfect peace as you trust in him. And may the power of the Holy Spirit continually surround your life with his super-abundance until you radiate with hope! (Romans 15:4, 13; TPT)

That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. “I took on the troubles of the troubled,” is the way Scripture puts it. Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. … There’s the root of our ancestor Jesse, breaking through the earth and growing tree tall, Tall enough for everyone everywhere to see and take hope! Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope! (Romans 15:4, 13; The Message).