More Than Wishful Thinking

Hope is something we cannot live without. Author Hal Lindsay expressed humanity’s desperation by saying, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”

For many people, hope is nothing more than wishful thinking. Wishful thinking produces pithy acronyms like “hang on, pain ends” and “hang on, peace exists.” Wordplays like that might make us feel better momentarily, but they have little ability to sustain hope.

Biblical hope, on the other hand, is the confident expectation that God will do what He says He will do. Because it is rooted in God’s reliable word, biblical hope clings to the promises and prophecies made throughout the ages by our Creator.