Need Hope?

Need hope? Paul tells us where to find it:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15:4 KJV)

The learning part is fairly easy – study the scriptures and we’ll learn. The patience part is a bit more difficult for me. Yet we’re told: In your patience possess ye your souls. (Luke 21:19 KJV)

The psalmist tells us: Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. (Psalms 27:14 KJV)

Fortunately, the scriptures are not the only comfort offered to us.

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26 KJV)

Opening our hearts to the Holy Ghost provides more of the learning Paul mentions:

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26 KJV)

With the Comforter, we will gain the ability to follow the Great Commission: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:20 KJV)

When we’ve learned, where’s the value of our knowledge unless it is shared, unless it grows? Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1 KJV) Doesn’t hope die if it’s not shared and grown?

Not really. Even Job – a man who lost all he loved, all he owned – acknowledges to us today:

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. (Job 14:7 KJV)

Nourish that tree with patience and learning. Then enjoy the greenery and allow Him to bring all things to your remembrance.