Luke 8:26-35 | Isaiah 41:10

Merriam Webster defines the word hopeless as, “incapable of redemption or improvement.” It also says, “giving no reason to expect good or success : giving no ground for hope.”

When thinking of who the most hopeless people in the Bible were, a few names come to mind; Paul (pre-conversion), Judas, and Ahab. Yet when we think of the man who was called Legion, there’s not a more hopeless man to be found in Scripture. This man who was filled with many demons, who couldn’t be bound by chains, who was in the hills screaming night and day. He was “incapable of redemption or improvement,” with “no reason to expect good or success.”

But then, hopelessness came face to face with Jesus. Hopelessness became redeemable, and a life was forever changed.

Are you feeling hopeless? This Christmas season, do you feel “incapable of redemption or improvement?” Jesus is seeking you. Jesus seeks the hopeless.