God Who Is Our Hope

Sunday’s Reflection

HISTORY IS FAR TOO HARSH for faith lightly held. History is far too real for faith to rest content in blissful denial. Faith requires more than naiveté. …

Our hope resides in a covenant grounded in God’s grace. God’s promises serve not as escape pods from history but as the means for living faithfully within it. … We do not trust in the times but in God who is our hope.

- John Indermark
Hope: Our Longing for Home

From page 25 of Hope: Our Longing for Home by John Indermark. Copyright © 2007 by John Indermark. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

Describe a time when hope in God has allowed you to live faithfully. Share your reflections.

Today’s Scripture Reading

John 14:21

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