Hope

Hope is described as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” Hope looks to the future and causes one to be fully optimistic that there will actually be positive outcomes to satisfy expectations. Many years ago God said to the prophet Jeremiah, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). Note carefully “to give you a future and a hope.” It was true then and it is certainly true today. Hope must involve God. […]