… this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him,
“‘I saw the Lord always before me,
for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;
therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
my flesh also will dwell in hope.
Acts 2:23-26
The special challenge of Christian Hope is that we have such cheap things to practice with. That is, things that are unproven and unknown—things in which we’re desperately looking for future potential.
“I hope she answers.” “I hope he understands.” “I hope I’m protected.” “I hope this works.”
And as often as not it doesn’t, and they don’t.
Whereas Christian Hope asks us to look backwards to a thing accomplished on a cross, 2000 years ago, on a garbage dump outside Jerusalem.
You aren’t looking at what could happen, but what already has. So now, today, and even tomorrow, when you say, “I hope He loves me,” you have full assurance he does.
Go in Peace.