"The unfolding of your words gives light ..." (Psalm 119:130a)
What then is this thing, hope?
Its presence so easily presumed upon
Its price so consistently devalued
Its promise so seldom realized
What then is this thing, hope?
A whisper of another world
A herald from a King
A schematic of a future home
What then is this thing, hope?
Whose absence is hell
Whose advent is life
Whose actualization is heaven
What then is this thing, hope?
On a dark Saturday
After a Good Friday
On this day before …
What then is this thing?
“After God promised to make her husband into a great nation, Sarah waited twenty-five years before she held Isaac in her arms. After God gave Joseph dreams of leading his family, he waited over twenty years before he even saw them again and was able to rescue them from famine. After Moses’ failed attempt to help his oppressed race, he waited forty years before hearing God’s voice call him to lead his people out of slavery. After becoming queen, Esther waited almost twenty-five years before her ‘such a time as this’ moment came and she stood in the gap for her people. After his stunning spiritual encounter, Paul waited more than ten years before he was officially commissioned by the church to the ministry to which we know him today.” (Alicia Britt Chole, Anonymous, 171)
“At this very moment, in precisely what you are facing right now, God will be what He has always been and what He promises He will never fail to be–your resting place. God is seeking you out to lead you back to Himself so that you can find all your needs satisfied in Him.” (The Song of a Satisfied Soul, 41)
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