No Need for Despair

As I have walked about various neighborhoods. I read many faces and body language of those whom I passed, and without a spoken word, I heard the many feelings of hopelessness. It saddened my heart as I looked on hundreds and thousands of people who were saying the same thing. I found myself becoming overwhelmed by their despair.
My heart cried and my eye wells filled with tears. Had these individuals not dreamt, hoped or searched for something? If so, when and where did those dreams, hopes and searching end?  Could it be that those hopes and dreams seemed too long in coming and they became weary? Had they hoped in something which ended in disappointment?
  Now in their despair, have they become so comfortable they no longer see it as despair, but the mundane that has become comfortable, like a well worn pair of shoes? Has simply surviving and keeping ones head above water, just making it, day to day become enough?
Oh my Lord, I pray that this not be so.
Now shifting my focus from what is being said around me without words. I ponder the words in my heart of John 10:10 "...I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."  Do they not know that Christ our Lord came that they may live, and not simply survive, but have a life of abundance? I continued to ponder the words in my heart, such as Galatians 6:9 "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Do they not know that God wants the very best for them, and his given his very best to them. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Do they no know that Christ is our hope? Romans 15:13 "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."  I guess they don't know, for the word also says in Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."  It is my heart felt prayer, that we not allow the greatest gift to mankind, be in vain, the life of Jesus Christ our Lord.  John 17:20-21 "I do not pray for those alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word; 21)that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me." We are alive in Christ, and he lives in and through us. No need for despair, for He has overcome the world, and so have we.