For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times

Sheri L. Dew, with the solemn voice of faith, proclaims: “For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.” In this sacred truth lies the recognition that the human spirit, though noble, is often too frail to endure the fiercest storms unaided. When trials come like waves, it is the Holy Ghost that descends as a companion, bringing both optimism to strengthen the heart and wisdom to guide the mind. What we cannot summon by sheer will is granted as a divine gift.

The ancients of Israel bore witness to this. When Moses stood before the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army behind, he did not rely upon his own power alone. The Spirit of God gave him courage to raise his staff and faith to step forward. The path through the waters was not opened by human might, but by the blessing of divine wisdom at the moment of greatest peril. Sheri Dew’s words echo this eternal pattern: that in the face of despair, heaven provides strength beyond our measure.

History too resounds with this truth. Consider Joan of Arc, a young maiden untrained in war, who faced the overwhelming might of armies and the suspicion of rulers. By her own strength she could not have endured. Yet she testified that the Spirit gave her courage and clarity, filling her with optimism that France could be delivered. Her triumph was not human alone, but the fruit of divine companionship guiding her through the darkness.

Dew also reminds us that these gifts come not in times of ease, but in times of challenge. It is when the night is deepest that the flame of heaven shines most brightly. Left to ourselves, we falter, consumed by fear or doubt. But with the Holy Ghost, despair is turned to hope, confusion to direction, weakness to endurance. The Spirit does not remove the struggle but equips us to pass through it with courage and grace.

Let the generations remember: to live by our own strength alone is to walk with trembling feet, but to call upon the Holy Ghost is to be upheld by a power eternal. For man may faint, but God never falters; man may despair, but heaven bestows optimism; man may be blind, but the Spirit imparts wisdom. Thus, in the furnace of trial, we find not our ruin, but our refining—because we are not left to face it alone.