Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Romans 5:1-5
by: Angie Osborn.
Hope is an interesting word. I hear it used often: I hope I pass this test, I hope I get a car for my birthday, I hope I can get this assignment done, I hope I don’t get in trouble. That hope is empty. It is left to chance and “luck.”
The hope we have is so different. It is not a chance but an assurance. It is not luck, but a promise. We have “hope [that] does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us” (v. 5, NIV)!