Update: Will I be ok? What is the true meaning of hope? These questions are prevalent all over the world during these crazy times. We have all been knocked off center to say the least. Please listen to the song below to encouragement that you will be ok and that there is hope for you!

Hope is a complex word: a word that offers us survival and a future. A word that is more than we can grasp, yet so compelling and inviting that we are want to entrust our present and our future to that hope. What is the true meaning of hope? It is indeed a word that is so intriguing that our inner spirit cries out to know more. We often wonder, is there any hope for me?

Hope Definition

Hope is a word that literally comes alive on the written page or as spoken word.  It cannot be contained in print. Hope is a word of such promise and life that to comprehend the true meaning is life changing and mind altering. What is the true meaning of hope? A massive number of words must be included in defining hope.  The list would include expectant, promise, belief, anticipation, faith, endurance, glory, and assumption. 

When Hope enters our world, an expectancy of promise of better things permeates our being. Once again, we have the anticipation of an improvement in our situation, the energy and availability of the power to believe and to hold on by faith.  Hope lifts us from despondency and despair. Hope energizes us and makes a dull day explode into a day of promise and joy.  Hope lights a pathway and gives us a hand-up.  Hope opens our eyes to see and our ears to hear. 

What is Hope?

Hope is the most splendid of words because it means life and the promise of eternal life – it is ours to believe and receive – through Jesus the Christ.  When grace happens, Christ enters.  Christ in you, the hope of glory!  This is the Blessed Hope.

Phillips translation of Colossians 1:27 from the Bible puts it this way: “The secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with him the hope of all glorious things to come. ‘” It goes on to say that “the hope of glory is the fulfillment of God’s promise to restore us and all creation”.