Hope in God

Indeed! The best sermon you can preach yourself this week may be only three words long: 

Psalm 42:5, “HOPE IN GOD!

                                     

A confident expectation and desire for something good in the future.

Biblical hope not only desires something good for the future; it expects it to happen. And it not only expects it to happen; it is confident that it will happen. There is a moral certainty that the good we expect and desire will be done.

In (my) life — and I think it is the intended biblical pattern — hope is like a reservoir of emotional strength.

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John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota