8:24
“For in this hope we were saved”. Let’s remind ourselves again that hope in the Bible is usually “a sure hope”. Something we look forward to knowing that it definitely will happen. God knows what His final goal is, and saved us as part of the process of achieving that goal. We don’t see anything like the fulness yet, but then no one hopes for what he already has! If we already have something, then it isn’t hope.
8:25
In the trinity of “faith, hope and love” hope is often overlooked, this should not be. Part of the reason is probably that hope in a worldly context is usually highly uncertain. In the Biblical context the exact opposite is true. The future goal is what God is working towards, and what all that He does in us as individuals, in the church as a whole, and in the world as a whole, is geared towards. If we want to live properly today, and to better understand what is going on, then we need to have this sure hope. We need to look at life through the lens of hope. This is not looking at it through a rose tinted lens, but looking at it through the lens of God’s purposes and plans. So we wait with patience. This does not mean waiting passively, but waiting actively doing the things that Christ commands us to do.
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