The Hope that Peter wrote about is not one of crossing your fingers and hoping that trouble will pass, but it is the genuine
trust that no trial on earth can rob us of all the goodness and grace-including eternity-that we have in him.
My definition of hope has been that of something of mortality. Hope has also been known to trust in some thing we possibly can't see.
We hope in what we wish or dream. We hope in the future. We hope things will get better. We hope this, we hope that. My hope should
always be in the Lord Jesus. Hope is something we can't see. We hope in things that are already set and grounded. I think I've
always laid my hope in circumstances, hoping they would change. But I have to lay and give my hope in Jesus. He's the one
that holds my life in his hands. He holds what is happening to me, what will, what won't and so on. Even if circumstances say
don't change, I still should hope in the Lord. In him is strength and security. In him is peace which always remains, unlike
hope of the world which constantly changes from minute to minute, day to day. When I put it like that, hoping in the world
would drive me crazy. Having someone like the Lord to lean upon is truly hope. Hope that in Christ circumstances will and
usually do turn around. While hoping in the Lord, life doesn't seem so bad, when things don't go right. Life without hope in
Christ is hopeless. There is hopelessness away from Christ. That even placing hope in the Lord, won't guarantee that I still
won't war and battle within myself. Hoping in the Lord doesn't mean life will be a bed of roses. Hoping doesn't guarantee
life is easy. But with Christ, living life makes it bearable, and all worth while. Hoping is putting faith in someone that I can't
see, or will not always feel. Faith is about believing, even when you don't believe. Its about trusting that when we fall there
is a God to catch us. He is almighty, all knowing, all caring, all sufficient, all omniscient, all omnipresent, all sovereign.
He is hope. He is all loving, and all merciful, in yet just and disciplining at the same time. He is my God, and I need him
and hoping in him today. Thank you for who you are Lord.
These were some thoughts I feel were possibly God breathed or just needed to come out. Must have been a revelation or
something because it just blew me away. It was almost like poetry. It is totally awesome. I guess he is the creator of poetry.
Anyway, that's it for now. Thanks for all who read. In the meantime, have a great week.
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