When you think about HOPE I wonder what your greatest HOPE is for the future? Good health well into your old age? Or maybe hope that neither your children nor grandchildren will ‘go off the rails’? Or perhaps hope that those who already have will come back? Now here’s a more important question: Upon what do you build your most important hopes?
We’re with the apostle Paul as he is writing another letter to his Christian friends in the crazy, wild city of Corinth in the mid first century. Hope was in short supply for almost every one of every generation in those days. So today let’s look at one of Paul’s strongly confident HOPE statements, because it might be something you will hold tightly too as you age and as the world around you becomes more turbulent and unpredictable. Paul wrote in 2 Cor. 4 “We do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So, we fix our eyes NOT on what is seen but on what is UNSEEN, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Cor. 4:16-18)
You’ve probably heard these powerful words before, maybe you’ve even claimed them for yourself as you were seeking HOPE when facing difficult or frightening medical news. The truth is, with every passing day our human bodies age. You and I are growing old, even if we won’t admit it. Just this week after my annual eye exam, my eye doctor said, “you and I need to talk about Glaucoma”!
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