How richly blessed I am! Yes, I have some problems; yes, I have some physical issues, but oh, am I blessed! I have such goodness flowing through my life. God loves me. I have a great family. I have good friends. Some I’ve had for many decades and some more recent. I have a wonderful church family that loves me and loves each other. I am sitting this morning just thanking God for how good He has been to me, and how good He continues to be to me.
I am so blessed. I heard the Gospel invitation five decades ago, and I responded. God brought me into His loving arms and family and gave me what Paul describes as a “good hope.”
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17: “May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.”
Good Hope – doesn’t that have the most delightful sound. It’s almost as if light emanates from those two little words. God loves us. By His grace He has given us eternal encouragement and Good Hope. His Good Hope strengthens our hearts and flows from us in good words and deeds.
I have been living in God’s Good Hope for almost five decades now. I can barely remember what it was like to live without hope. I know there were times before I met the LORD that hopelessness flooded my soul, but since Christ Jesus moved in by the power of His Spirit, and brought the Good Hope of the Father to abide in me, even the memory of hopelessness has been wiped away.
Now I live in Good Hope and Good Hope lives in me. I know with certainty that God will work out all things to my good no matter what they may look like in the present. I rejoice today in God’s Good Hope!
