Daily Wisdom

“…we glory in tribulation also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience experience, and experience hope.” Rom 3-4

Hope is defined as “a wish or desire supported by some confidence of fulfillment.”  In the biblical perspective it is exactly that – a belief grounded in faith, based on the promises of God.  Hope allows us to stretch our efforts towards an eternal tomorrow through God’s assurances.  Ecc 9:4 “For the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”  No matter your current status if you’re living there is hope, because God offers us three unchangeable hopes:

1.) God is the God of forgiveness and redemption, thus it’s never too late to get tight. He will take what you have to give Him and make usable for the eternal and hopeful for you. Pas 103:10 & 12 “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities; As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”

2.) God makes all things new. Lam 3:22-23; 25 “…his compassions fail not; they are new every morning; The Lord is good unto them that wait for him.” 

3.) God never withholds His goodness from those who seek Him. Psa 34:10 “…but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” God always has our best interest in mind, he will bring about what He has promised which will satisfy our hopeful desire.

The devils workmanship is bondage and hopelessness; leading to discouragement, fear and depression. But, the Father; “The God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope…” Rom 15:13.  It’s for this reason we must abound in the promise of hope in the Lord, knowing by the promise of future glory we can be “more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Rom 8:37

HSAY…Todd