Hope: a confident trust with the expectation of fulfillment;
looking forward to a positive outcome, or as I like
to say, seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
I believe that faith and hope actually work together. You cannot have one without the other. If we are confidently trusting in a good outcome of something, isn’t that faith? To trust is to have faith, and to have faith is to have hope. I get a lot of my hope from God and his Word.
When we face the challenges that life throws our way, we have God’s promise that we can go to Him with our every need. Jesus said, “Lowe I am with you always.” Even though it is hard to go through tough times, we can know that we are never alone in them. Having God on our side makes it easier to pass through difficult situations.
People who do not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior are alone. It amazes me how they get through the losses that life deals to all of us, like loss of a job, or our home, or even worse, the loss of a loved one without the hope that Romans 8:28 offers: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”
There are many today who have no hope, and they are terrified by the things that are happening in our world. Our leaders are totally forsaking the Christian values and morals our country was founded on. If I allow myself to dwell on fears of what might be I can become frozen and do nothing, or I can stand on my faith that God is ultimately in control of all things, and “pray without ceasing”.
In spite of what some would have us believe, God is alive and well and on His throne. Those who govern may think that they are ruling our country, but God is in control of all things, and all things do happen according to His purpose.
“God has not given us a spirit of fear” so let’s share the only real hope that is in Jesus Christ and look forward to this:
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16 – 18
It is my belief that things are progressing as they should, and our Rapture is coming soon.
