A friend sent me a devotional this morning and this quote just popped out at me:
“Are we hopeful because our life looks as promised, or are we hopeful because we know the Giver of hope?”
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This got me thinking - most of the time life doesn’t turn out how we envisioned, huh? Our grand ideas and idealistic plans are met with the harsh reality that we often call “real life.”
But hope is a beautiful thing! We can and should hope for the best but how should we respond when we are met with “real life”? What happens to our hope then?
Perhaps that depends on where we have placed our hope, to begin with. If our hope was in our plan, then we will be devastated and crumble BUT if our hope is in God then, even though disappointment may surely come, we are not sidelined. We are able to say “Thy will be done” and continue to hope in God. As David prayed in Psalm 27:13 “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord, in the land of the living.”
Today I am believing that the God of hope will fill me with joy and peace by the power of the Holy Spirit. Regardless of what is before me, I am in good hands with Him!
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:13
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