A God of Hope
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” - Romans 15:13
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Don’t get your hopes up too high.” The point of the expression is to discourage people from becoming too confident in a particular outcome or else they run the risk of being very disappointed should things not turn out the way they thought they would.
Whether it is the result of a medical exam, a job search, or a loan application, people don’t want you to get your hopes up too high to keep you from being let down if things don’t go your way.
And while the expression is meant to be positive, the problem is that it deprives us of what is the lifeblood of life and living. For without hope, we lose our reason for being. Hope is to life what oxygen is to breath. You can’t make it without it.
Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.” In other words, hope propels us from one level of life to the next. One writer compared hope to rainbows because they emerge after storms, indicating that better and brighter days are ahead.
As believers, I want to remind you that the God we serve is a God of hope. His Word contains one admonition after another encouraging people in the face of loss that even if they lose everything around them, they can still hold on to hope.
Have you lost hope? If so, let me encourage you. The God you serve is a God of hope. Romans 15:13 says, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
No matter what happens, do not lose hope. Your story is not finished. If you are breathing, then God still has a plan for you. Hold to your hope because the God you serve is all the reason you need to keep hope!
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Don’t get your hopes up too high.” The point of the expression is to discourage people from becoming too confident in a particular outcome or else they run the risk of being very disappointed should things not turn out the way they thought they would.
Whether it is the result of a medical exam, a job search, or a loan application, people don’t want you to get your hopes up too high to keep you from being let down if things don’t go your way.
And while the expression is meant to be positive, the problem is that it deprives us of what is the lifeblood of life and living. For without hope, we lose our reason for being. Hope is to life what oxygen is to breath. You can’t make it without it.
Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.” In other words, hope propels us from one level of life to the next. One writer compared hope to rainbows because they emerge after storms, indicating that better and brighter days are ahead.
As believers, I want to remind you that the God we serve is a God of hope. His Word contains one admonition after another encouraging people in the face of loss that even if they lose everything around them, they can still hold on to hope.
Have you lost hope? If so, let me encourage you. The God you serve is a God of hope. Romans 15:13 says, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
No matter what happens, do not lose hope. Your story is not finished. If you are breathing, then God still has a plan for you. Hold to your hope because the God you serve is all the reason you need to keep hope!
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