Hope

Trust in the LORD with all your heart

Hope comes from remembering all that God has done for us.

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. Therefore we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:1-2

When discouraged put your hope in Christ.

"Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will praise Him, my Savior and my God." Psalm 42:11

Hope motivates other valuable virtues.

"The faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth." Colossians 1:5

Hope grows as we remember the promise of the resurrection.

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope." I Thessalonians 4:13

You must use your heart to find hope.

"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints." Ephesians 1:18

Hope is one of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). "Hope is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity (1 Pet. 3:15; Heb. 10:23). In it the whole glory of the Christian vocation is centered (Eph. 1:18; 4:4)." Unbelievers are without this hope (Eph. 2:12; 1 Thess. 4:13). Christ is the actual object of the believer's hope, because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled (1 Tim. 1:1; Col. 1:27; Titus 2:13). It is spoken of as "lively", i.e., a living, hope, a hope not frail and perishable, but having a perennial life (1 Pet. 1:3). In Rom. 5:2 the "hope" spoken of is probably objective, i.e., "the hope set before us," namely, eternal life (comp. 12:12). In 1 John 3:3 the expression "hope in him" ought rather to be, as in the Revised Version, "hope on him," i.e., a hope based on God.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. (Romans 8:24-25)

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. (1 Peter 1:21)

Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the LORD. --Psalm 31:24

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. --Psalm 42:11

The hope which is laid up for you in heaven... The hope of the Gospel... The hope of glory. -- Colossians 1:5, 23, 27

Inspirational Quotes

While there's life, there's hope!

--Ancient Roman Saying

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- George Washington Carver

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.

--Unknown