Wipe that silly grin off yer face!
You Christians are not realistic. You keep on smiling and being happy even though this world is getting worse and worse every day. How can you maintain such irrational hope against the facts of what we see on the news each day?
The Answer: It is all about hope in something bigger than us –
“…Christians can hope because faith always reaches beyond earthly circumstances. Its confidence is in a person. And no other person in recorded history has influenced more people in as many conditions over so long a time as Jesus Christ. The shades and tones of his image seem to shift with the needs of men: the Jewish Messiah of the believing remnant, the Wisdom of the Greek apologist, the Cosmic King of the Imperial Church, the Heavenly Logos of the orthodox councils, the World Ruler of the papal courts, the monastic Model of apostolic poverty, the personal Savior of evangelical revivalists.
“Truly, he is a man for all time. In a day when many regard him as irrelevant, a relic of a quickly discarded past, church history provides a quiet testimony that Jesus Christ will not disappear from the scene. His title may change but his truth endures for all generations” (Bruce Shelley).
Put your Hope in Jesus!