A Confident Hope

Have you ever found your hope for your prayers to be answered feels somewhat more fluctuating than assured? Throughout lockdown I found myself hoping that our eldest daughter would be able to get married but the restrictions kept prohibiting it. While I still hoped that it would one day happen I became frustrated, increasingly desperate and felt powerless to change anything. When the government lifted restrictions my hope flickered stronger. Eventually a date was set and at that point my fluctuating hope became confident, assured. I now had a confident hope. A date changed everything.

There was a date, a point in time when everything changed for all of us. Of course, there is a date ahead of us when Jesus will return but there is also a date behind us – when Jesus came! When Paul wrote to the Ephesians he says “I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called – his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.” (Eph 1: 18). We are not just hoping but in him we are confidently hoping. Paul went on to write “I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him.”

Right now I’m praying for you – even as I pray for myself! May we be a people who live in confident hope and the greatness of his power, which is available to us because of who Jesus is and what he has done.

With love to you,
Helen
Senior Leader