Hope is offen defined as a favorable and confident expectation of something not seen or in the future. Hope is something that we want either to happen or to attain. Some people hope for certain material things that they want badly. Others hope that things will work out in the future for them such as a different job or that their marriage will last.
As a Christian, for what do you hope? The apostle
Paul, in Acts 23:6, said, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of
a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
" Paul had confidence that the resurrection would take place because he
trusted God and Jesus Christ. Do you have hope in the resurrection? If
vou are a Christian you you should because when you were baptized for remission
of your sins, you
symbolically were resurrected from the dead. For we read in Romans
6:3-5, "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For
if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:" As a Christian
we have this hope and also the assurance of God that we will also be raised
from the physical grave someday For what do you hope? Christians look forward
with great anticipation to the day in which our Lord will return and all
the graves will be opened.
Because of this hope we can say, "Lord come quickly!"