Hope

What do you hope for? Has that hope always been the same throughout your life or has it shifted as you have grown older and your personal circumstances and priorities have changed? I would have to say mine have.

Earliest I can remember thinking about hope was when coming up to my ‘O’ Levels and that I’d get through them. Then that changed to hope about a job when I left college, then hope in meeting the right ‘one’ for me. On to hope in family and children and now grandchildren and wanting the best in life for them. Now hope for aging years and health for family and friends. Of course you’ll see that not all my hopes are for me, some are for others especially family and close friends. Then we have world situations and disasters where hope is probably all that some people have, hope for food and water, hope for peace. Without hope all is lost.

As Christians we rely on hope. So much of our faith and therefore our life is encompassed in it. Even after death we have the ‘Hope of the life yet to come’. That hope that one day we will stand before Jesus and be with Him in paradise forever. I can’t contemplate the alternative to that.

Think about your hopes and why you have them and how you can bring them closer to being more than hope, but a reality.