Saturday 2 September 2023

OUR HOPE OF GOODNESS

Proverbs 10:24b (Nlt)…but the hopes of the godly will be granted.

I put my sun cream away in the cupboard the other day as I’d given up expecting the sun to be hot enough to need it any more this summer. As I did it I wondered have we, in a sense, put our spiritual sun cream away as well, because we’re not expecting the heat of God’s blessings to overwhelm us anymore? 

Moses prayed for God’s face to shine on His people and God still has the intention of shining down His blessings on us every day, all our lives, but if we’ve given up expecting anything it hinders the flow of all He’s trying to send our way. 

God wants us to have a spirit of hope, of expectancy of good from His hands, because our faith needs hope in order to work.😊 If you’ve lost heart recently, and lost your sense of expectancy of things getting better, please let this verse encourage you….

Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Regardless of all the Psalmist had gone through, and all that was looming in front of him, he had learned to keep believing for, and expecting good things in his future because he knew his God was a good God. And we have the same good God, so even if we’ve been seeing or experiencing negative things recently, that doesn’t mean we should stop looking for God’s good things. Quite the contrary, we should be looking and believing all the more for God to turn things around for our good!

Isaiah 30:18b (AMPC) …Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who (earnestly) wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him (for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship)! I wonder, are we earnestly expecting all those?

Be encouraged! Our God is the God of all hope and comfort, not the God of all give up, hopelessness and despair. So if you’ve put your spiritual suncream away, go get it out again, and keep looking for and expecting God’s goodness to shine on you every day in all it’s glory.😊☀️

Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Expect a blessed weekend.x😊

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