Today I want us to think about the blessed hope that Paul says is the fiber of the life of a Christian.
Hope invovles tense waiting, patient longing, watchful expectation, and enduring longing.
2 Hope is like a candle in the midst of a dark night. O Lord, they walk in the light of Thy countenance. If we have come often to God in the sunshine of our lives, our anxious feet will find the familiar pathway, even in the darkest night. Though blinded by disaster, though hounded and hindered by doubt, though confused by life which seems out of hand, we can find our way to God intuitively because going to Him has become second nature, a way of life. It is said that in the ancient monasteries of Europe the monks walked the dark hallways with candles secured to the toes of their shoes, giving light only for the next step.