“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul,
both sure and steadfast, and which enters
the Presence behind the veil, where the
forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus,
having become High Priest forever
according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 6:19-20
(NKJV)
“Let us hold fast the confession of our
hope without wavering for He who
promised is faithful.”
Hebrews 10:23
(NKJV)
The Bible speaks a lot about
hope and for good reason. A child of God has a marvelous, sure hope of
God’s gracious provision for us in this life and for eternal life through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Too often we put our hope in
other things. We hope for a good test result; we hope our candidate will
win the next election; we hope for a promotion at work; we hope for good
weather; we hope traffic won’t be bad. It’s not bad to want these things
to come about. but we when use the term “hope” for earthly things, it
diminishes the concept of our eternal hope and may cause us to put undue focus
on the temporal.
This world is passing away, as
are we, and anything we expect in this life is transitory. But our
eternal hope is based on God’s unwavering faithfulness and the fact that He
never changes, His promises are sure. Hope as it's used in the Bible is
not wishful thinking or vague longing; God’s hope is the anchor of our
soul. That is where we should put our expectation, that is what we should
set our hearts on rather than on the temporal things of this life.