The 4 Anchors You Can Have in a Storm

God made you in such a way that you can survive tremendous ordeals--illness, imprisonment, persecution, and privation.  You can live without food and water--far longer than you might think.  You can handle a tremendous amount of stress, but there is one thing with which you cannot do without.  Apart from this you quickly despair.  It is hope!   You can rebuild when illness has ravished your body.  You can put your finances together again, and you can pick up the broken pieces of your world when the bottom drops out, and go on, but when you are overcome by the despair of hope, you give up and die!