God’s Autocorrect takes “nope” to “HOPE!”
The exodus out of slavery.
Freedom would seem like a Nope.
With God, Nope becomes HOPE!
Moses and Pharaoh
With God, Nope becomes HOPE!
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
Exodus 14:10-12 New International Version (NIV)
HOPE turned back to Nope.
When it seems like there’s NO WAY, remember there’s YAHWEH!
But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
Exodus 14:29-30 (NIV)
Nope to HOPE
He [Jesus] approached the town gate. Just then, a dead person was being carried out. He was the only son of his mother. She was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, he felt sorry for her. So he said, “Don’t cry.”
Luke 7:12-13 (NIV)
A future of Nope.
Then he went up and touched the coffin. Those carrying it stood still. Jesus said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The dead man sat up and began to talk. Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
Luke 7:14-15 (NIV)
Nope turns into HOPE.
How about you?
Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus. When Jesus saw their faith he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
Luke 5:18-20 (NIV)
“I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
Luke 5:24b (NIV)
The story of the paralytic and his friends
Luke 5:17-26
Nope to HOPE