Hope

When you are faced with life-changing circumstances, where do you turn? Not just life-changing, but earth-shattering, life-will-never-ever-be-the-same-again circumstances. Life throws you a curve, but not just a curve, a steeper-than-steep-mountain-switchback curve.

If we don't have hope, how do we make it through these trials? Hope is the one thing that makes sense of all the chaos that is around us sometimes.

Here are a few passages that I meditate on when life gets tough.

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. ⁴ And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. ⁵ And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. Romans 5:3-5


Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1


But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

¹⁹ to deliver them from death
and keep them alive in famine.

²⁰ We wait in hope for the LORD;
he is our help and our shield.

²¹ In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.

²² May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD,
even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:18-22

What are some of your favorite Scriptures that remind you of the hope that we have in Jesus Christ?