Hope, What is It? Do You Have It?

Hope is our desire to see something happen or become true.

It’s hard for us to survive without hope. Because of that, we often place our hope in objects, or in experiences, and sometimes in people, which leads to disappointment for us when our expectations are unrealistic.

We should always be placing our hope in God alone. It’s good to have things and it’s good to have friends, but we cannot put our hope in all of that temporal stuff all of it is temporal.

The apostle Paul wrote that hope doesn’t put us to shame because of God‘s love that’s been poured out on us, (Romans 5:5).

He also writes that hope that we can see is not HOPE at all, (Romans 8:24).

The best thing that we can learn about hope is that our God authored it, and as we learn to trust in Him, He fills us with so much hope that we’re overflowing with it, (Romans 15:13)..

Hope is an anticipation and expectation that God is working even if we cannot see it. It’s a spiritual optimism that actually leads to building our faith.

So we might see that faith and hope go hand-in-hand. Well faith is the belief that God is who he says he is and that we should trust in him, hope is the expectation that He is there. So then when we have hope in God, it actually propels our faith.

Living our lives with HOPE often comes down to knowing how to navigate our thoughts. We can become overwhelmed and even feel defeated in things that have little to no eternal impact.

When plans fail and when we are disappointed, we can still have hope despite earthly disappointments.

We “choose’ to hold onto the hope that God has prepared a glorious place for us in heaven that will never end.

At times when our hope feels like it is far off, or I hope feels like we don’t even have any, or we feel like we don’t even have faith it’s likely that we had situational hope, and this kind of hope that we place on temporary things or even people often brings despair to our lives.

So this would be the time to take a minute to analyze where you have directed your hope. If you see you’ve placed hope, your hope, in anything in this world, redirect that hope toward God.

Our hope is secure when we are grounded in Jesus, when our eyes are on Jesus, our gaze our focus, is on Jesus in all areas of our life.

Our hope is secure when we are grounded in Jesus and are expectant about spending eternity with Him.

Everything in this world will eventually burn up, all wood, hay and stubble. Have and keep your eyes on the eternal, nothing else will satisfy the soul.

 

~ Gail Manizak

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Gail Manizak of The Power and Presence Ministry, is all about encouraging the Body of Christ as a Ministry of Intercession and contending for our communities, as a House of Prayer.

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