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Tuesday... So I hope so!


Psalm 146:5b (MSG), "Put your hope in God and know real blessing!"

Tuesday... So I hope so!

Now over at the end of 1 Corinthians 13 there are three very important words. Verse 13 (NLT) says, "Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love." Now the focus of chapter 13 is love but those two other words, faith and hope also have great importance in our life.


Faith believes God's promises are true. Hope expects their fulfillment. Faith is the foundation (believing God's word now). Hope is the outlook (anticipating what comes because of faith.)" And we need both.

David over in Psalm 146:5b (MSG) focuses on hope. He says, "Put your hope in God and know real blessing!" Now we can hope for a lot of things. I hope it rains today and it did. I hope that I will live to be 78 and I have. Now those hopes don't have real power. It didn't rain because I hoped for it to rain and the same with me being 78. But hope really does have power in our lives.

You see hope is not just wishful thinking, it is a confident trust in God's promises, even when circumstances look uncertain. And that is so important for us to have. Hope pulls us through so much in our lives. 

Now this hope is rooted in God's character. It comes from knowing that God is faithful, loving and unchanging.

The first part of verse 5 (NLT) says, "But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper." And then, "whose hope is in the Lord their God." 

Verses 6-9 (MSG) says, "God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says - he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry, God frees prisoners - he gives sight to the blind, he lifts the fallen. God loves good people, protects strangers, take the side of widows, but makes short work of the wicked." 

My hope is in God who is faithful, loving and unchanging.

Hope is also future-focused. It looks forward to God's ultimate plan: salvation, eternal life, and the fulfillment of His promises. Verse 3 says, "Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life."

And hope also gives strength for the present. It gives endurance and courage to keep going though trials.

Yes, our hope in God is so important for us to have. So let's put our hope in God and then we will know real blessing! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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