Hope, hope, hope. There's been a lot of talk about this idea lately, and for good reason. Chew on that thought for a while, and look at how this psalmist proclaims who God has been for him.
There's this funny thing about God, and that is the fact that He never changes. As one who created, and hence is outside of time, the definition of time - change - doesn't apply to Him. If He has been one way and used to do great things, then you can be 100% sure that He still will be one way and do great things.
We know that today, Jesus is our hope. We can confidently come before Him and ask for help, ask for courage, trust that He's got a plan for us. He has been our hope, and always will be our hope. Maybe you used to hope in Him, but you changed your mind. In your youth, you knew Him. Something happened since then, maybe.
Look at your neighborhood 3 year old. S/he probably believes in a God. That's part of the reason why Jesus calls us to be childlike, confident in the good God we were told about. We don't have to understand why bad things happen, we just have to know that God isn't going to abandon us, and that He will take care of us. He's our father, and parents teach their children the way they should go through discipline, letting them make their own mistakes, and always accepting them when they run back.
Until the day you die, God is that father, with outstretched arms, waiting for you to trust Him with your fears.
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