Being Hopeful

Our God could end our miseries with a word, but He frequently will not end them without our agreement and our cooperation. The process has to happen His way.

Misery is a response of ours to our circumstances. When our response to nasty circumstances is faith, the misery is replaced by hope. When our response is patience, misery is replaced by hope. What you respond with is what you end up with.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Also through Him, we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. This hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

(Romans 5:1-5 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©)