“For You, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.” (Psalm 71:5 ESV)
Hope is the lifeline tossed out to us from God. It sustains us when we feel like we are drowning, and God gently pulls us and the lifeline toward the shores of spiritual growth. With hope we also have faith -- not faith that we will be spared pain and despair but faith in the God who will lead us through the difficult times.
Therefore, in our struggle to understand God’s will, let us not concentrate solely on our pain and despair. Instead, trusting in the Lord, let us look with hope and faith toward attaining new, rich experiences of the abundant life God has given us.
-- Adapted from John R. Wimmer in “Blessed Endurance: Moving Beyond Despair to Hope”
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