Just like Grace, Hope is a Person ...
Instead of postponing our Hope, we have a Hope that is alive and living inside us, Who guides us and leads us and even make intersession on our behalves.
We were made to win!
We were destined to conquer!
The apostle Peter exclaims in 1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
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Yet, we have managed to somehow take the Hope that is alive and put it on hold!
King Solomon prophesied in Pro 13:12
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
The Hebrew word for Hope is תּוֹחֶלֶת or tôcheleth. The word-picture talks about the covenant of the Arm of God reveals authority on the cross.
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What a powerful pictograph!
Who is the Arm of YHVH?
Jesus!
He is our Hope, our Confident Expectation ...
our Anticipation-with-pleasure ... our Elpō (Greek)
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Rom 8:24-25