God's Hope

"And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, Whom He Has given us." Romans 5:5

Life has its disappointments. Most of us are disappointed by others and really more often than we easily admit to ourselves. We are disappointed when our expectations are not met. Too often we have unreasonable and inappropriate expectations, of others and ourselves, of the family, the job, the church, and the community. As sure as we trust God and he is our hope we should also relinquish our expectations to Him. When I completely trust God and put my hope in Him my expectations adjust accordingly. That is why hoping in God doesn’t disappoint! He has planted into our hearts with love this unquenchable hope, but it is a spiritual thing, monitored and sustained by the Holy Spirit. So we must get connected to the Holy Spirit. He was installed in us at salvation, but our up keep of that divine connection has been rather random and somewhat inconsistent. So we must open our hearts and let Him pour in us again and again through His love that hope producing sense of Him being right there. We so need to be flooded and saturated with His presence and power in our hearts. We know He loves us, but we must receive this poured out love like a well or fountain and not in Dixie cups for survival. Fill us up to overflowing God so we don’t run dry and consequently dry out everyone else too. May you receive a flood of hope from these truths.

For His Spirit,

Pastor Fred

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