Hope

Our culture often speaks of hope as either a Pollyannaish positivism or a measured optimism. Viewed through the lens of the cross, hope becomes an agent of empowering transformation instead. It does not deny suffering. Hope acknowledges that the present conditions are desperate, and it depends on God, with whom nothing is impossible. Hope is honest about suffering and urgent about God’s future. (From Barn Geese)

Accompanying Scripture:
Jeremiah 33:14-16, Psalm 25:1-10, Luke 21:25-36