Now that we have been put right with God through faith we have peace with God through our LORD Jesus Christ. He has brought us by faith into this experience of God’s grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God’s glory! We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings God’s approval, and his approval creates hope. This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God’s gift to us.

Romans 5:1-5

The Bible, our book of hope is far more than a book of wishful thinking; it is a book of well-founded confidence in God’s purpose and plan for us as believers. Whatever we are like today, we know that in Christ we have a living hope, and it will not end in disappointment.

No one is hopeless whose hope is in God’s word.

Our Daily Bread – March 19, 2002