Our focus this coming Sunday will be on HOPE. Romans 5:35 makes a claim, that to be honest, doesn't seem to be true. It says that "hope does not disappoint us." I don't know about you, but hope disappoints me repeatedly!
When I was kid, I hoped for a pony (which kid didn't?) but I never got one.
Every year I hope the Georgia Bulldogs win the SEC Football Championship.
When Becky discovered a lump in her breast years ago, we hoped it wasn't cancer.
I hoped we would oversubscribe our church budget this year.
All of these "hopes" failed to meet my expectations and left me disappointed.
What are we to make of this claim of scripture that hope does not disappoint? We can either dismiss it as religious myth and join the chorus of those who say belief in God is a waste of time or we can try to unravel its meaning and discover its truth. That's precisely what we will attempt to do this Sunday. I hope you will join me. And in that hope, I hope I want be disappointed!
See you Sunday, (I hope)
Stuart
