Biblical hope is not optimism; it is the certainty that God keeps his promises. It looks to the future he has planned and leans on a mercy that is new every morning.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Written to exiles who would spend seventy years away from home: God’s plans include the time of waiting.
Read the chapter →Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
God is called “the God of hope”: he is the one who fills us with it, by the Spirit.
Read the chapter →It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
In the saddest book of the Bible, in the middle of mourning for Jerusalem, comes the most hopeful line: his mercies are new every morning.
Read the chapter →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.
It does not say everything is good; it says God works all things together for good for those who love him.
Read the chapter →Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Hope as an anchor: it does not stop the storm, it keeps you from drifting.
Read the chapter →But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Waiting on the Lord renews strength — the eagle is the picture of someone flying again.
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