Hope Regained: God Has Power to Resurrect Dead Hope

It is sometimes hard to let hope rein, Amen?  We so often long and pray, and long and pray, and long and pray for that unfulfilled desire until we are, quite frankly, weary of it all.  God does not desire for our hopes to be dashed.  We can take heart that He is always working in the wait even though we may not feel it or see it.  And whatever “wake of disaster” that is left behind, He is the Master of making beauty out of our ashes.  Somehow, He redeems each broken piece.  Somehow.  Therefore, we do not loose heart or hope though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.  For our “light and momentary” troubles – which often seem anything but -  are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all, as Paul attests to in 2 Corinthians 4.   

Our eternal hopes are built on the faithfulness and the justice of God.  Which are both clear and cloudless.  Further, the joys of heaven will most assuredly compensate for the sorrows here on earth.   This is no uncertain hope, but a well-grounded assurance.  God is for us and He is in the process of conforming us into the image of His Son.  The fire never “feels good” but having the dross burned away, He begins to see the reflection of Jesus in our faces causing us to proclaim, “If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare His own Son but Gave Him up for us all, how will He not along with Him graciously give us all things?