It is Spring. We can’t stop snapping photos of all the Spring beauty and then I’m so anxious to try to capture them in watercolor.
Tulips are waving in the breeze everywhere we go. Trees that wore bare branches throughout winter have started flowering and sprouting delicate green leaves. Some of the biggest trees don’t even look like they have buds for new leaves yet. But with the flowers blooming, we have a settled, secure hope that the giants will leaf soon. I don’t just ‘hope so’ that all the trees will green up soon. I am positive, though I don’t yet see signs.
God wants us to have that same sure, strong trust (hope) that what He told us, will happen. Though the next season may get hotter than we like, His promises will be fulfilled. His plan of redemption is being worked out. He had plans for us and this world before we were created. We will receive an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away that is reserved in heaven. (I Pet. 1:3-5)
Hope. Strong, living, eternal hope.