WORDS OF HOPE
from the Bible
(the Word of God)

The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.
Their measuring line goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
and like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
and its circuit to the end of them,
and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
(Psalm 19, verses 1-6 (ESV))

In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth.
(Genesis chapter 1, verse 1 (ESV))

And God said,
"Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens
to separate the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons,
and for days and years,
and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens
to give light upon the earth."
And it was so.
And God made the two great lights -
the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night
  - and the stars.

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens
to give light on the earth
to rule over the day and over the night,
and to separate the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
(Genesis chapter 1, verses 14 -19 (ESV))

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?
(Psalm 8, verses 3-4 (ESV))

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life.
(John chapter, 3 verse 16 (ESV)