Are you feeling discouraged with life? Are you facing a difficult challenge or situation in your marriage, in your work environment, in your family relationships? Here is great encouragement for your day. Listen, Jesus tells us. “In this world you will have trouble,” he says, “But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33) That doesn’t make the trials we face any less real or painful, but as Christians, our hope provides prospective, because, “hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” Don’t throw in the towel and accept defeat. Instead,