Hope Is God Alone

Our hope is certain and assured through faith in Jesus Christ and His work on the Cross.

December’s Awakening, Day 15

In God alone is there faithfulness and faith in the trust that we may hold to him, to his promise, and to his guidance. To hold to God is to rely on the fact that God is there for me, and to live in this certainty.

 —Karl Barth

The word “hope” I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

 —John Calvin

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by Godʼs power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 1 Peter 1:3–5, 13 NIV

            Hope, faith, and trust are all intimately entwined. Our hope is sourced in God and His Son, Jesus Christ, who bore our sins on the Cross and was resurrected from the dead and is now our interceder before the Father in heaven. It is this belief through faith in Christ and His work on the Cross and our trust in Him and His Word that ensures our confident hope. We look forward in joyful anticipation for the rapture, when Christ comes for His own and we are forevermore resurrected with glorified bodies, our salvation now complete, and are with Him through eternity. That is the believer’s hope—certain, assured, and confidently unshakable because it’s all about Him.