Thoughts for another day

March 5, 2013.

Today's verse: Rom. 8:25. But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

In our lives, we’re able to bear many adversities and stumbling blocks because we hold ‘hope’ in our hearts – the hope, that things will be better tomorrow and that our problems will somehow vanish and leave us free.   Every human being has hope in his heart as an instinct and it’s quite powerful in that, hope refuses to leave except perhaps in dire situations when one can see one’s boat sinking, and then like a pricked balloon hope too ceases to be.

Now having hope without recourse to a higher power (God in our case) to deliver that hope is like hoping in probability and believing in the man-made maxim, ‘every bad is followed by good and vice-versa.’  But, it may not be so; hence, if hope one must, then it’s better one hopes in something that’s sure, and like Paul would say, I guide you to that ‘sureness’, the Rock of Ages, in Whom one may hope and that hope will, in every probability, be realized.  I believe that everything we hope for in God, will be ours – whether it be peace of mind or a good home or the right kind of success in life. 

The message of the Gospel is one of Hope:  hope to live a clean, full life in this world and in the next, we’ll be welcomed into our eternal dwellings to be with our God and Savior, to commune with Him forever and ever.  Now Paul has a valid point in our Scripture above when He says that if we hope for what we see, then it cannot be called hope for how can you hope for what already is?  But we know we’re saved because we hope.  This hope is, as a result of our past experiences where we saw God fulfilling all He promised in His Word and this gives us greater reason to hope.  And we patiently wait for our hope to be realised.  Paul says Ro. 5:5 ‘hope doesn’t disappoint,’ so surely, in time, God will bring about the object of our hope.  Let us then hold on to this hope of living lives pleasing in His sight, and when the time comes, He will welcome us with arms wide open.