Hope

Hope is that God-given grace of expectancy. It looks for the fulfillment of God’s promises in Christ (Col. 1:27; Gal. 5:5). It not only comforts and supports us in the troubles and disappointments and afflictions of this life, it also does something for us when we enjoy ease and abundance in this life: it detaches our affections to things in this world and sets our affections on things above, attaching our affections to Christ (Col. 3:1-5; Rom. 8:25).

Rick Warta