Hope....

Hope......

This morning I was looking up the word, Hope, in the Bible dictionary online. first I got a great many verses and then the screen came on saying,"there are no references to hope in the Bible".  Weird, so I backed out of program and did it over two or three times and came to the same screen....finally I had to stop and start all over again....

I knew there was hope....in the Bible....I just knew it...

A sense of panic came over me,,. That made me think, what if there was NO hope...doubt, despair, darkness, doubt....all the antonyms of hope....that is what many people look forward to, no hope.....just existence...a computer glitch ....emptiness ....nothingness....no hope.....

 One definition , finally, was "one of the Christian values".  Funny, it didn't say that about any other religion....only Christianity....

I have took thank You, God of hope, that there is Hope in You, through Jesus  who came that we might have that Hope....

1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Psalm 52:9
For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope in your name, for your name is good.

Psalm 62:5
Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


hope for verb

to believe in the future occurrence of (something) <he was hoping for an A in English>
Synonyms anticipate, await, hope (for), watch (for)
Related Words bank on, count (on or upon), depend (on or upon), rely (on or upon), wait (for); envisage, envision, foresee; foretell, predict, prophesy; assume, presume, presuppose; contemplate, eye, view
Near Antonyms doubt, question


Wikipedia "In Christianity[edit]
Main article: Hope (virtue)
"In many traditional Christian texts, the word is an indication of certainty and a positive expectation of future reward. “Hope” in the Holy Bible means “a strong and confident expectation.” Though archaic today in modern terms, hope is akin to trust and a confident expectation".[27] The author of the book of Romans, Paul the Apostle, argued that hope was a source of salvation for Christians. Romans 8:24-25 states "For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one also hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it".[27]
According to the Holman Bible Dictionary, hope is a "[t]rustful expectation, particularly with reference to the fulfillment of God's promises. Hope, is the anticipation of a favorable outcome under God's guidance[;]... the confidence that what God has done for us in the past guarantees our participation in what God will do in the future.[28]
The concept is considered one of the three theological virtues of the Christian religion.

[29] "Hope is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity".[30]