September 20, 2026, the 263rd day of 2026
Hope Carries Over the Rough Patches
Sometimes things get so challenging and the future so unsure, that all we have to cling to is hope. Sometimes it is all... View MoreSeptember 20, 2026, the 263rd day of 2026
Hope Carries Over the Rough Patches
Sometimes things get so challenging and the future so unsure, that all we have to cling to is hope. Sometimes it is all that stands between us and despair.
Hope is there to whisper encouragement, to help us endure, to belive that things can and will get better.
“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 13:13
Love may be the greatest but hope is right in the top three with faith and love.
Hope is often ignored because many compare it to wishful thinking, but it is not that. Its foundation is God's faithfulness, not wishes.
Within these verses of present suffering weighed against the coming glory to be revealed in us, we get that sense of hope, how it helps to keep us going. And then we see hope highlighted.
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.”
Romans 8:18-25
"The earnest expectation" is an apt description of hope.
Stay strong! Keep hope alive in you, remember the One Who sent it to you!
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