We throw the word hope around a lot. Our church is even named, Village Hope Church. I have a favorite funny story of a time that Brad and some guys from church were working on creating the name of our church with landscaping bricks. It was in the summer and I had taken the girls to swim lessons and stopped by to see their progress afterwards. When we stopped at the church, the men where taking a lunch break so I went to look at their morning's work....It was one of those....OH SO SHOCKING moments to see what they had completed because they had gotten through Village and part of the word hope....so far it said, "VILLAGE HO...." in landscaping bricks....I always CRACK UP at that memory and that the guys were oblivious to it while they sat there eating lunch by these words.
Seriously though, we have complete HOPE in Christ...no matter our past! What does that mean? I think it means we can wait for our salvation with complete joy and full confidence that what GOD has done for us is TRUE and we will see it's FULFILLMENT! The place where we are is not our final destination....there is always a BRIGHTER DAY ahead no matter the darkness we travel through to get there. But this hope is not just for us, we should see everyone we meet in the same gracious way that GOD sees us...no matter where others are, what they are doing, how dirty they may appear to us (figuratively or literally)....there is always HOPE for them because GOD IS LOVE!
Love Always Hopes.
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