Thought for Meditation
Biblical hope is not to be defined as a characteristic optimism
that the future holds something good for us,
but is to be defined as a confident trust in our good Lord God
who holds us and the future.
Biblical hope is not to be defined as a characteristic optimism
that the future holds something good for us,
but is to be defined as a confident trust in our good Lord God
who holds us and the future.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Lamentations 3:18-26
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Psalm 43:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 147:11
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Psalm 33:18-22
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Psalm 16:8-9
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Hebrews 6:10-12
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love,
which ye have shewed toward his name,
in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence
to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
that ye be not slothful, but followers of them
who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us,
and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
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