Hope seems to be in short supply in our world. Or maybe more accurately, a correct view of hope is in short supply. We say that we are hopeless or hopeful, but what do we really mean when we say such things. A hope is not a wish flung out to God in prayer. The Biblical view of hope is believing in things unseen - trusting that God is at work and that God is in control. Is that what we mean when we say that we are hopeful?
More troubling, what do we mean when we say that a situation is hopeless? That it is beyond God's control? Or that God is not present with us in the midst of that particular situation?
It is a time for us to renew our Biblical sense of hope - trusting that the promise God made to us in the coming of Jesus Christ is true and central in our lives. May it be so. Amen. and Amen.
Reblog - While We Wait: Hope
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