I don’t know about you but for me hope can be a slippery little sucker… Life is so fluid and so many things can colour our perspective. Part of the slipperiness of hope is down to our human-ness. We’re influenced by upbringing, life experience, chemical activity in our brains and all the rest..! So hope can slip out of our grasp. God's been teaching me this slippery hope is child like and His goal for us is grown up hope. Grown up hope isn't affected by life experience. You see as we all go through life we ‘share reality’ but it is simply one aspect of reality. There's a whole other dimension, of which our consciousness experience both individually and corporately is only a tiny part. Eternal reality which is outside of time is spiritual reality.
When we place our hope in something turning out the way we'd 'hopped' the fulfillment will always be temporary but in the eternal truth of Heaven hope is fixed and certain. The hope that Jesus loves us, is good and has a plan to bring us safely home no matter what dumb things we do in this mortal bit of our reality is fixed and certain...
Honey bun can I encourage you today if you feel hopeless - humble yourself before the Holy Spirit and ask Him to give you a non slip hope that no circumstance can steal away... I can testify to the graciousness of God to me in those times when I felt utterly hopeless but carried on just doing the next right thing God brought good from it. Perhaps on the other side of Heaven we'll understand that victories were won in those moments when despite hopelessness we stayed at our post and refused to let our eternal hope slip...
Love Ruth x
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