This week I was asked to define what the word hope meant to me. It took me by surprise because I had never really been asked to define it, yet I use the word almost everyday. "I hope this works out, I hope he likes me, I hope I make it there on time...I hope, I hope, I hope. What I came to find on this journey of defining the word is that hope is not a feeling or emotion..It is a reality.
We are so busy looking at what is right in front of our face as if we have blinders on. Once we become bored of it we toss it over our shoulders and move onto the next bigger, better, or shinier thing. This really challenged me to take an even deeper look in to my life and ask myself this, "What legacy am I forming for my future"? I need to look PAST the temporal and have eyes of faith. To let go of temptation and fix my gaze upon Jesus.We are to hope in the glory of God. If hoping in the glory of God is a reality then it doesn't matter what is going on in our life, good or bad, because it does not change the hope and reality of Christ. Hope in Him does not put us to shame, because God is NEVER SHAKEN!
Romans 5:1-5
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us".
Redemption is with Christ, He will accomplish. The person of Christ is enough because He is a God of unbreakable promises.
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