God knows that we want heaven and we want Him. He created us to long for Him and He is the only one who can fill that void in your life. Our hope for Heaven is one of our greatest hopes and is the strength and foundation of all our other hopes in life. This hope brings you joy when you think about Heaven. According to Sarah Young, hope does not mean wishful thinking. According to some definitions in the dictionary, hope means to believe, desire, or trust, and to look forward to something. Those definitions imply that what you want is already there waiting for you, just like Heaven is! If you trust Him and live by His ways, then you've got nothing to worry about! Because what you hope for, is what is in His plan for you, so He will prevail and provide! If you're not completely on the right track, well that is alright, you'll get there with prayer and quiet time spent with Him. But keep in mind that if you're not entirely on the right track, things you hope for could not be in His plan for you, so do not be disappointed, always praise what you get from Him because He works in your best interest.
You're hope of heaven is what you need to hold onto all the time, it is the hope of all hopes. It shines a light in the darkness, shows you the way. He wants you to just be bursting with hope, overflowing into others by the power of His Spirit.
And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)
These are some of the coolest verses I have ever read. Maybe its just this version that sounds really awesome, but I love how it so clearly explains the concept of hope.
Hebrews 6:18-20 (NLT)
So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Romans 15:13 (NLT)
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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