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Hope -- The ONLY Lifeline!
- Ronald Bainbridge
- Aug 18, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Oct 27, 2025
Today's Message of
FROM
HELPING PEOPLE
FIND HOPE!
Ron Bainbridge
EDITOR & Coordinator
Friends, Discovering A BETTER LIFE is an electronic publication for those seeking to know more about Jesus Christ, and for Christians, that has encouraged hundreds of people every day since it launched in April 1990.
During the past 35 years, Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES has produced a regular weekly column that has been published in up to 25 different secular newspapers throughout Australia.
Our Mission is to provide men and women with words of Encouragement and Hope, as well as empower seekers, along with believers in Jesus Christ around the world, to recognize, experience, and celebrate their oneness with all others who know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, regardless of denomination, church fellowship, or historic tradition.
Our resources include regular articles, devotionals, inspirational images, Bible Studies and more.
Today’s Message of Encouragement from:
Discovering A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES
(Stories of: Real People, Real Events, Real Places)
And are dedicated to HELPING
PEOPLE FIND SALVATION, PEACE and HOPE
Through entering into a personal
Relationship with Jesus Christ,
Who declared,
“In this world you will have trouble,
But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
(John 10:10; 14:1-6)
(16:33; Acts 2:36-47)
Hope --
The ONLY Lifeline
He Will Be There!
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Friends, David Aikman holds a PhD in Russian and Chinese history. He worked for twenty years as a respected journalist for Time Magazine, covering stories around the world. He has seen great events unfold and witnessed incredible suffering.
David has also written a book, which he titled "Hope: The Heart’s Great Quest." Before writing this book, David surveyed the world's religions' teachings about hope and read many books on hope by the world’s best-known philosophers. Finally, he surveyed carefully what the Bible teaches about hope. He says: “I had always been intrigued by hope, but in something of a relaxed, almost detached manner. I had no concept of it as the only lifeline that, at times, can keep a person afloat when floodwaters of trouble and catastrophe seem certain to engulf them. However, I learned how shallow my original notions had been when truly fateful circumstances engulfed me for two years.”
First, as David was researching his book, his marriage broke up. He wrote: “How pathetic can you be? You who have spoken so often of Christ’s healing power … here you are adding yourself to the sad statistical saga of marriage breakdown . . ..”
Next, David saw his two lovely daughters traumatised by the parental break-up. Then the sorrows kept piling, creating the need to sell the family home.
Friend, David’s study of hope, begun in curiosity, suddenly became urgent—a life or death matter. The collapse of his life made his search for hope real and urgent. He cried out: “Could the hope that intrigued me as a book subject also be a quality that could bring light into the darkness of my grief?”
David ends his book with these words: “God’s grace reached down and reassembled hope in my own life. He did so, first, by entering the greatest of my heartaches, the broken-down structure of my marriage. God’s grace worked a remarkable change in my heart and my wife’s. Even our family and closest friends were amazed at what they saw happening in front of them.”
Happily, David reports that his two daughters “found a new conviction in their own lives that the God of hope is truly just that. This newfound conviction brought about renewed dedication in their lives. . .”
David Aikman’s candid story demonstrates the restorative power of the love of God. You may want to add his book to your library. More importantly, you may want to discuss your need for hope. If so, I’d like to assure you that God’s power gives new hope to all who might be hanging on to hope by a thread. So, no matter what your circumstances might be at this moment, your situation is not hopeless—because God gives us hope.
Friend, with that thought in mind, we would like to help you embrace God’s restoring hope. If you would like to write to us today, concerning what may be troubling you and preventing you from living a Hope-Filled life, we will personally answer your letter and send you a copy of a pamphlet that can help you find the hope you are seeking.
To receive your free copy of the “HOPE” pamphlet, write to
Discovering A BETTER LIFE,
Unit 49/2 Plantation Street,
Menora, Western Australia 6050,
Email us at: abl-alb@omninet.net.au
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Thank you for taking the time to read today’s message.
Friend, may you always have Love to Share,
Health to Spare, and Friends that Care!
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Friends, until we share our next message of encouragement with you, may our Loving God lift you on eagle’s wings and provide you with His Peace, Wisdom, and Love (Isaiah 40:27-31)
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