The Living Hope

Just when I thought I’m on my way back to recovering, I’m back to the fumigated hospital room. I was full of hope, to start another episode life, completely free from seizure or my captivator, which I have to wait on.

It was then that I was reminded of a hope, which can be dead at times, but to keep my hope living at all times. My recovery after my brain surgery, some years back, has been going well but with several episodes of epileptic attack, I get panicked easily.

Now, I have still have hope, but that hope can sometimes be dead or fluctuated. A living hope inside me makes me flow through the dark and sunny days of life. The dark days; in a way of talking, was about my days in the Intensive Care Unit.

Although it was a period I don’t wanted to revisit much, it taught me certain lessons in life. For a short period, my hands don’t seem belonged together; my eyes saw things people did not see. It’s because of the violent jerking of my body originating from the brain.

There are nights when my hope gets subdued, diminishing my hope being useful again in the future. Sometimes I whispered, ‘Why is it necessary for me to see daylight to experience another pain?’ Yet, ‘Let it be, Lord, work on me’ was the answer to have a living hope.

When my hope gets diminished, in the midst of the pain and suffering, I am troubling myself more and more. And should my hope in the Lord be dead I might not live to see today’s beautiful gift of the shining sun.

My hope in the medications and the knowledge of doctors, although I’m not undermining them here, did not give me comfort. They too are human with special knowledge and products; but they tamed my illness, helped me improve day by day. There’s more to it when you are really sick.

Living Roots inside the Soil:

There’s nothing happening on earth without God’s knowledge. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it, says King David in Psalms 24:1. God commands everything and we can’t coerce Him in anyways man can think of it.

There’s a plant popping out of living roots, to get better view of it, which seems dead when all its surface outfits are gone. The plant can’t be seen, in those seasons, but it doesn’t mean it was dead. When the surface atmosphere was right for its growth, it comes out again.

The living roots produced living plants. In that way, the living hope inside us gives us the hope of living in full bloom once again, in whatever situation we may have been through.

Now, the Living Hope is something we couldn’t possessed by ourselves, it is the gift of God. And we’ll talk more about it now.

New Birth into Living Hope:

The hope of the nation, the hope of the people faded, for many, on that day in Calvary’s mount. As was foretold by prophets and him, Jesus Christ was crucified on the Cross, where he died.

It was ultimate; His victory over death, it lives on forever. The tomb’s empty. The absolute truth is: He is risen; He is living!

Now let’s look forward onto why our hope is living and how we are part of it. In our situations, for many, the living of the risen Christ has no meaning in our life.

A HOPE in itself is HOLE, without God. Without the mercy of God and without hoping in Jesus, our hope would simply lead us to a hole with unending bottom.

“In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (1 Peter 1:3b)

Should you go on reading the verses that followed, it talks of the inheritance we had in heaven through the salvation of Christ. The inheritances which we’re going to inherit once we hold onto the living hope. This living hope refrain us from the consuming nature tradition of the world.

Clinging on the Living Hope:

When Jesus Christ died on the cross, his disciples were bewildered on his teachings. They were afraid; his talks on his resurrection seem hollow. Yet he was raised again as was promised.

Today, when our prayers seem to go in vain; his plans we cannot see, and the turmoil of life never seems fading, our hope’s nearing dead. I’ve been through this road once in a while, yet in his abiding grace he renewed my hope.

It’s good to have a living hope; for when the Lord thinks it’s appropriate all things will fall back for our own good. And the living hope is our key to the preparation we had for our afterlife celebration with our abiding savior.

Preserving the Living Hope:

Again, preserving the living hope is a task one has to maintain with the help of the Holy Spirit. The evil one is busy trying to snatch away our hope at every nook and corner of time. We are the inheritance of the world, as of now, the kingdom of the fallen angel.

We see, feel, and like things as the world did. When our life took a detour, unplanned and unexpected, we wanted to give up on our determination. A determined life, with living hope, would get to share the never ending glory of God.

Since the day we believe and put our trust in Jesus Christ, our life is hidden with him so that no one and nothing can take it from him.

Trusting or having faith in God does not guarantee a living free from all kinds of trouble; it’s a freedom from the clutch of the evil one. We are bound to have trouble yet having the privilege of possessing a living hope and comfort throughout our pilgrimage.

Nurturing the Living Hope:

There are ways to nurture the living hope we have Jesus Christ just as our young ones are nurtured for their better growth. While I cannot touch in full detail here, I don’t want to leave it behind either.

We talk of a living hope, a gift given to us by God in his great mercy. Maintaining a good connection with the Giver will help us in learning the ways of nurturing and preserving the gift.

No one knows the purpose of a gift better than the Giver.

Praising, honoring Him from the bottom of our heart is on the list of our ‘must dos’. In praising God we understand more of him and his greatness; we become closer to him. And in that way, we’d nurture of our hope, strengthen it, till the day he appears.

My hope will lived on forever as I’m in awe of the risen and reigning Lord.