And as I went through the week, thinking and praying about what to write, and actually opening my laptop to start, I stared at the screen for a lot of minutes until it happened so here we are!
One of the themes that seem to have been recurring in my life is hope. Especially of late.
Am not talking, “hope I passed that test I didn’t adequately prepare for, or hope I get home safe tonight” type of hope. I’m talking major, life or death type of hope.
I’m talking staking out your life on God hope.
Truth is, I get that everyone has struggles, some harder than others. Life has a tendency to do that. A tendency to start rolling back and forth and leave you feeling unmoored and lost at sea.
I remember coming to school last year and having to struggle with whether I’d register or not after fees were increased.
I had no immediate anchor or safe stay that would assure me it would be okay.
Let me set the scene.
I was first year. I was a foreign student. I hadn’t even half the amount to pay.
And I sat staring at the wall one full hour thinking, God, what is this? Although I probably asked in a more dramatic tone.
There was no set precedence and well-meaning people asked me if it had been done before, where someone in my situation actually got to stay and register. And if you’re anything like me, common sense isn’t what you want to hear when you’re desperate.
I did. I still don’t, for the life of me know how. But I do know God.
Hope. I am way past feeling like hope is an emotional thing. Strength fails. Motivation wanes. Logic and reason sit you down and convince you it’s over. And like another post on this blog, But God. God comes in.
Hope that relies on a sovereign, all powerful God is not a timid hope. It is an emboldened faith that spurs us to trust God more. To obey him and more importantly, to love him.
Hope allows us to trust God and hope against hope. It is not a safe bet against the odds, it’s a firm belief rooted in knowing that the promises of God can be believed, from being saved from sin and being loved in the everyday. If it is in his word, we can trust him for it. After all, who has ever set precedence for God? He is precedence itself.
So, to close off this post, I’m gonna ask, on whom do you base your hope?
