I Hope

Proverbs 13:12, 19

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul

Hope.

It is the desire for something that you do not have, that you believe you will have, at some point in the future.

It is the sentiment of perhaps in stating intent.

It is the expectation and anticipation of the fulfillment of things that have been promised but not yet presented.

It is a fruit of the Spirit, hope is, planted, grown and produced through relationship with the Divine Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

And when hope is deferred, put off, detoured, or delayed, there is a sickness and a sadness that results. But still we hope. We long to see what we do not now see; we long to hold what we do not now have; we long to experience what we have never encountered before. There is nothing in this world that is quite like hope, and faith is the reality of hope, the substance, the evidence. If you have it, you can see it, taste it, hear it, touch it, smell it, and you know it is real because you have it. But hope...hope is the reality of something you cannot yet get your senses around yet, but knowing that you will.

Hope is a desire that makes life worth living. Though the answer is long in coming, hope keeps you looking. We hope for better days, for better results, for better things. For some it may be eternity that they hope for, for others it may be tomorrow. Either way, the expectation of something better is the force that drives us onward. And when that something better arrives, sometimes dropped into our lap at an unplanned moment, sometimes worked hard toward and attained at long last, it is sweetness to the soul that banishes all the heartache caused by the wait! Hope is a beautiful thing.