Guest Writer: Author Pam Thorson

Guest Writer: Author Pam Thorson

Subject: Hope

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. - Romans 15:13

I awakened this morning full of hope. It’s always a good day when a highly anticipated package comes. Grounded in an estimated delivery notice for today, I listened in happy expectation for the sound of the delivery truck in my driveway. I nearly danced when it arrived.

Don’t judge me. An order fulfilled, on time, is a thing of joy.

This outcome is never a given, though. Many times, a package will not arrive on time, even when it’s flagged as “out for delivery.” Sometimes, my hopes are dashed when it gets delivered to a wrong address, never arrives, or shows up damaged. Even the most conscientious companies get things wrong. Everybody’s fallible. Everybody except God.

In popular culture, “hope” is a wish.

Sure, it was just a package. Hope is too big a word for it. I was just wishing for my order to arrive, like we wish for good weather. We may even pray to see these-and more serious longings- come to pass and harbor bitterness when they fall to the wayside unfulfilled.

For the believer, hope is our anchor.

How often do I conflate wishing for God to act with putting my trust in Him? Do I “hope” He’ll answer my prayers and love me despite my failures, or do I approach the throne of grace boldly?

Am I eagerly anticipating, or just wishing for, Christ’s soon return and our resurrection?

Biblical hope is grounded in truth and trust. Because of His divine essence, we can know our Creator will always…always… act in our best interests. Wishful thinking is grasping at clouds. Hope in God weathers the storms and rests in the refuge of His promises.

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil…. - Hebrews 6:17-19

This hope walks on water and dances in the mud. It traverses valleys and mountaintops and smiles at the future. It enters the holy place behind the veil and beholds the face of God.

Guest Writer: Author Pam Thorson

About the Guest Writer: Pam Thorson is a nurse, author, speaker, and full-time caregiver. She is the owner/admin of a certified family home in Idaho, juggling her official duties with her love of research and writing. She is the author of four books - Song in the Night, Out from the Shadows, Arrow, and Blood Falls. You can find her books on Amazon, as well as Arrow and Blood Falls at bookstore ...And Books, Too! (andbookstooonline.com)

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Thank you for the wonderful article on hope. Look forward to having you on again.

Many blessings,
- Grace Thorson