Hope's Sublimity or Recognizing The Comforter

A friend sent me these verses last night to encourage meand help me guard against despair... 2 Cor.4:8-9 NIVWe are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;  persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed... Thank-you Lord! Thank-you, as you rend night's curtain Whatever today commandsYour hope lets know for certainThat we are in perfect Hands A prayer to begin a new week... While I am learning how to love You, Lord, the way I oughtHow to be a reflection  of the love that Your love taughtHow not to think more highly of Self than I should, insteadTo live with more awareness of the life-blood that You shedThen, to be much more thankful for the hope Your pardon sealedWhile I am learning hope's bedrock; by your wounds I am healed Have mercy, Lord, while I am learning hope's sublimity; © Janet Martin Hope is grief's HealerIn Christ's wounds whereby we are healed, Hope is manifested.Here we find the tangibility of these truths Ps.147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Ps.34:18The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. Isa.53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Before Jesus was crucified, resurrected and ascended He promised this; Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit-John 14:15-18 (; ; ; ; ) If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter,that he may abide with you for ever;Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you...