"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." (Isaiah 25:8-9)

What or whom is your hope in? Mankind has generally depended on the wisdom of men and women. Solomon was the wisest man who had ever lived in his day...yet he found that the wisdom and reason of men cannot change the fact that both good and wicked men have the same fate...death. Utopian ideas of wise men have all been failures. Whether it has been based on democracy or autocracy...philosophy or theology...capitalism or statism.

So what is the alternative to trusting in the reason and wisdom of mankind?

FAITH in God it seems to me.

Faith that there is a good God is a sure foundation for hope. I find in the Bible that He loves mankind and that because of this love, and His Grace, mankind cannot miss His goal of eventual perfection in an age to come, regardless of how much we fail in this age. And this faith in God can sustain us in the midst of a faithless world.