signpost…
Last week saw the announcement that President Barack Obama would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. This announcement has been met with a mixed response and I am not seeking to add an opinion to this debate, rather I wonder whether it acts as a signpost pointing to something else…
In their reasoning behind the awarding of President Obama, the Norwegian committee stated, “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future.”
You see, I wonder whether the awarding of President Obama, says as much about you and me and the world we live in as it does about him. That it points to the fact that we need to know HOPE!
You only have to pick up a daily newspaper to realise that we are living in a world that needs hope. And if we are honest we know it to be true as we feel it ourselves, we need to know that there is hope!
This need for hope makes me feel awkward as I know at the core of what I believe is a message of hope.
A hope based not in a philosophical idea or mere human effort but rather in God. A hope that promises peace with God, peace with one another, that death is not the end and the fact that this isn’t how it always has to be.
Surely this a hope worth pointing people to?
Therefore I am thankful for the hope President Obama is revealing, however his example challenges me to the core of my being as to whether I will be a signpost of the hope I know!
So that’s me how about you?
Do you know this hope?
If you don’t, then I want to say there is hope! I want to encourage you to investigate it for yourself…
If you do know this hope, then you are left with the uncomfortable question I am left with, are you revealing it?
Am I, are you willing to stand up, to stand out and become signposts pointing to God who is hope?
