Let’s start here:
“So now faith, hope
and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
-1 Corinthians 13:13
About a year ago God began to take me on what has thus far
turned into one of the most fantastic and difficult journeys of my life. He
began to teach me about hope.
This all began when I received what at the time was quite a
mysterious word from one of the P Squad teams I was staying with in the
Dominican Republic.
“Hope will signify
totality.”
What does that mean?! And so I began to ask the Lord, and he
led me to 1 Corinthians. I realized that the things he had been teaching me
over the course of my two previous experiences on the World Race were both
faith and love. I understood very little about hope.
Fast forward to now…
I was having coffee with Michael and Kathy Hindes the other
day and Michael said something that struck me. It was along these lines:
“In the face of
adverse situations the world loses hope, but it is in the face of these
situations that our hope as Christians is bolstered.”
You see, these past 6 months have been remarkably
challenging for me. Any expectations, preset notions or even things I believed
to be true have been blown apart. God has revealed time and time again that I
have not, am not, and will not have control of anything other than the choices
I make in the face of whatever lies before me.
I am out of control.
But the good news you see is that this is actually a
fabulous place to be. Perhaps you need to be reminded that God is GOOD. He is
good all the time. When I’m exhausted, he is good. When I am broken, he is
good. When I am rebellious, he is good. When I am worshipping him, he is good.
When I don’t understand, God is good.
God’s goodness is not
dependent on me. I am dependent on his goodness.
HOPE.
