Tuesday... Our hope is getting bigger and bigger...

Tuesday... Our hope is getting bigger and bigger as we wonder if any of those presents under the tree are what we have hoped for and if our new year will be better.

Paul says in Romans 8:24 (MSG), "We are enlarged by the waiting." We are so anxious. Why can't we open them today? I want to know what I got. And we do that in what we are going through each day. I hope this will end soon. I wonder what is going to happen.

He goes on, verse 25, "But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy."

The Amplified Bible puts it this way, "But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait eagerly for it with patience and composure."

I know we hope 2021 will be different than 2020. This has been a very difficult but also productive year. It has been greater than I could have ever hoped. But now we wait eagerly for what is coming and we can only do it with patience and composure. Verse 25 in the New Living Bible says, "But if we look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently."

And as we look back we can also look forward patiently with confidence because (V 28 NLT), "We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them."

And our confidence is strengthened in verse 31, "If God is for us, who can ever be against us."

So my our hope be enlarged with patience and confidence. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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