Adore '09 - A Generation of Hope

Hope, as defined in Reader’s Digest Great Dictionary, is a feeling of expectation and desire (noun) or want something to happen or be the case (verb).

So what is hope to you? What is your hope? What is my hope? Well, to be honest, I would hope for 10million Ringgit dropping from heaven with God saying, ‘Nic, here.’ Some of you may be laughing and saying DREAM ON DUDE!! Well, a guy can hope can he?? xD

In dire situations, people lose hope easily. At this point, these people would first succumb to depression. As their depression worsens, they will either be turned utterly insane or will just commit suicide as he/her cannot take it.

This year has not been a very good year to everyone. Starting even from last year, the front pages have been flooded with headlines about the economy crisis. As giant companies like AIG closing down and the world is thrown into panic. Recession. Jobs will be lost due to retrenchment and layoffs. People will find it hard to make ends meet. Those dreaded Ah Longs are having a field day as people start loaning money from them. And when they can’t pay off those monstrous debts, with the Ah Longs oh their tails, suicide is the most favorable choice for the victims.

Ah Longs a.k.a. Loan Sharks

War torn nations in Africa where leaders rule with an iron fist and power can only be bought by guns and blood. Africa itself is already a poor continent and these wars are creating a bloody tally which increases day by day. Those people live in fear everyday. Not even worrying about food, they have to worry about whether they will even see sunlight tomorrow. What’s worse, even children as young as 10 are conscripted to join the war!

Kids with guns.. Literally!

In India, where poverty is still rampant, people in the slums would rather die from a cut wound by a rusted nail rather than to receive money to treat the wound in a clinic. The man would rather receive the embraces of the oblivion which is death than to continue on living. Working back breaking like labor for long hours under the scorching sun with a pay barely able to even fill half his stomach, the man has lost all hope. (This is a true story told by my dad who visited India on a business trip)

Poor Indian from the slums

Enough said, this world seems to full of hopelessness. Death and massacre is seen daily in the news. Rape cases, riots, school shootings, war…

In all these gloom and chaos, is there any more hope? Many would say no. But I tell you, those who knows not our God will never understand what hope is. Jesus is ever-caring for us. Those who are lost, He will seek them and protect them. Those who fall, He will pick them up. Those who turned their backs on Him, He will wait for their return, and when they do, He will open up His arms and happily embrace them. Our Lord is like no other. What is more amazing about Him, He loves us, and nothing is impossible with Him around. People who are dead He revived, people who are in deep financial problems, He provide them with their daily needs, people who are sick and with death knocking at their doors, He healed them miraculously where medicine and science failed.

Adore ’09 will be talking about hope. We wish to see you there. Loads of fun and a concert that will definitely bring the house down! And what’s more important, you get to know about Hope itself.


Adore '09

Looking back is regret, looking forward is worry, looking down means defeat, when you look up, there is hope. – Dr. Ong, a good friend’s dad and my former short-term badminton coach

For hope, call 1300-13-GOD –Anon.