Romans 8:24-25 – For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Romans 10:14 – How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Hebrews 11:6 – And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
1 Timothy 1:12b – … I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
Family, we hope for things that we do not have, or for the completion of what we do not fully have. What we have there is no need to hope for because we already have it. In hoping, it is wise to know what you hope for. It is wise to know if it exists. It is wise to know that what we hope for is obtainable. Otherwise we throw our hope to the wind and it is swept away without any benefit. .
We are not those who hope on hope. That is useless. We are not those who pray to the skies not knowing of anyone to pray to. We know God. We know that we know God. We know him personally and tasted that He is good (Psalm 34:8, Hebrews 6:5). Though others may not know that we know, we know that we know God. What they consider unknowable, we know. We know because we know Him personably. God has made His home within us (1 Corinthians 6:19). He walks and talks with us daily. Family because of Him we always have hope. God loves us with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3). We always have hope because we always have God.
Let’s not fret about things we are not meant to know, but let us consider what God has given us to know (Deuteronomy 29:29). We may not know what our circumstance will bring, but we do understand that God loves us and God is fully able to protect us. That is what we must focus on. That is what we must know. If we know God then we know that He is always good. If we know God we know that He loves us. If we know these two things, if we believe these two things, they are the secret to peace through any circumstance. The truth of His goodness and love for us must be a truth that is unassailable by attacks from without and within. When this is so we always have hope. In this knowledge is a joy and peace that will never leave us. Our joy and peace are based not on who we are or what we are capable of, but on who God is and on what He is capable of.
Let unquenchable hope find a home in our minds, our hearts and our souls because He lives and He loves us. Praise God! Let hope with a sure reason abound! Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.