Rejoicing In Hope

"Rejoicing in hope."  Romans 12:12.  Our hope should certainly cause us to rejoice.  Many difficulties in this life bring sorrow.  Our journey in this world is laden with hardship.  However, we have hope through Christ our Savior.  The Christian life is one of expectation.  We have hope that difficulties with pass.  We have hope that darkness will be absorbed in light.  We have hope that God will walk beside us and lift our load.  Our joy is a joy of the soul.  Because of hope, we endure.  Satan can not destroy our hope.  We hope in the God that has all power.  We have hope in a Savior that destroyed death.  Our hope dispels fear.  Our hope gives birth to a greater faith.  Our hope lifts us above the world.  Our hope is a firm assurance in life without death.  Our hope is planted in the world to come.  Because of hope, we look for the coming of Jesus.  With hope, we anticipate the resurrection of our bodies from the tomb.  With hope, we long for the heavenly land.  Our journey from this temporal land to the eternal land is traveled with joy that is unspeakable.