It’s natural as we approach the end of one year to try to
peer into the next. As we cannot know the future, it seems the most we can do
is hope for the best. All those wishes for health and happiness for the coming
year are just that: wishes!
Britain is known as the “Land of Hope and Glory,” sung with
gusto at the Royal Albert Hall in London every year at the end of the Promenade
Concerts. For many this memory has a ring of truth, although hope is
diminishing in that country and the glory has been fading for a long time.
Of faith, hope and love, the greatest may be love, but the
least understood is hope. Hopelessness is the cause of suicide; hope is an
essential ingredient of life. But hope according to its general definition—the probable/possible
expectation of something desired—is no match for life
So why does the Bible put so much emphasis on hope if hope
is that precarious? Because the Bible has a different idea of hope: It is
certainty about the future, as certain as the love of God and assured by our
faith—faith that is “the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.”
That evidence for the unseen is more sure than the evidence
for the life we experience here. “For what is seen is temporary, but what is
unseen is eternal.” Thus, we will continue to put my trust and hope in God
through 2013.
Will you?
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