Keep Hope Alive 

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 17 (KJV) ¹⁶For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  ¹⁷For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 

One night, two frogs left the safety of their swamp and ventured into a nearby farm to explore. They soon found themselves in a dairy. Hopping and jumping around (frogs “will be frogs, after all), they jumped into a milk pail half full of cream.
At first, they were both thrilled. They had never tasted anything so delicious! They drank and drank. Soon (after some contented frog belches followed by much giggling) they were both full-bellied and getting just a bit sleepy. “Time to get out of here and head back to the swamp for some shut-eye,” burped the first frog.
But there was a problem. They’d had no trouble hopping in ... but how to hop out? The inside of the pail was too slippery to climb, and there was nothing on which they could place their feet for traction to get up a good hopping distance ... or any hopping distance at all.
The awful reality dawned on them: they were trapped.
Frantic, they began to thrash about, their little frog feet scrabbling for a foothold on the elusive, slippery curve of the pail’s edge.
Finally, the second frog cried out, “It’s no use! We’re doomed, my brother! Let us save what dignity we have left and die here like frogs, with our eyes facing our homeland!”
The first frog cried out to stop him. “No!  “We should never give up! When we were tadpoles, which of us would ever have dreamed that some day we would emerge from the water and hop about on land? Swim on, and pray for a miracle!”
The second frog eyed his brother sadly and said, “There are no miracles in the life of a frog, brother. Farewell.” And so saying, he turned his face in the direction of the swamp, gave a sigh, and slowly sank out of sight.
But the first frog refused to give up. 

He continued to swim. He swam and he swam in ridiculous, pointless, useless, futile circles, hoping against hope for a miracle. Fired by adrenaline, he paddled mightily ... yet his brother’s dying words clutched at his thoughts, even more insidious than the growing fatigue that tugged at his weakening muscles. Was my brother right? he thought “desperately. Am I a fool? Are there no miracles in the life of a frog?
Finally, he could swim no more ... and with a great cry of anguish, he stopped paddling and let go, ready at last to face his fate like a frog.
But something odd then happened ... or rather, didn’t happen. He didn’t sink. He just sat exactly where he was. Ever so tentatively, he stretched out a foot ... and felt it touch something solid.
He heaved a big sigh, both sad and grateful, said a silent farewell to his drowned brother, then scrambled up on top of the big lump of butter he had just finished churning
… and hopped out of the pail and off to the swamp, alone but alive. Hope

What is hope ?
 A life without Christ is a life without hope. Sadly, many people endure the inevitable difficulties of life without Jesus Christ. They spend sleepless nights in the hospital facing the likelihood of death without Christ for comfort. They struggle to save a wayward teenager from self-destruction without Christ for wisdom. They endure the awful words from a mate I’m leaving because I don’t love you anymore. In sorrow, they lay their loved one in the grave with no promise of a peaceful eternity. They go through it all with no hope.
 

What is hope? Is it a wishy washy maybe or a kind of unsure optimism? The modern idea of hope is “to wish for, to expect, but without certainty of the fulfillment; to desire very much, but with no real assurance of getting your desire.”

A Christian’s definition of hope is far superior to that of the world. Instead of wishing or hoping for something to happen, a believer knows that their hope is solid, concrete evidence because it is grounded in the Word of God and we know that God cannot lie.

Hope fills us with confidence, assurance and expectation. Confidence because God will not forsake us, assurance because God will not forget us and expectation because God will not fail us.

So today young person  remember it's not time to give up . But keep on pressing on .