Hope is misunderstood by poets as a fleeting emotion, manipulated by politicians as an expensive promise, and managed by the religious as an earned state. It is none of those things. Hope is your joyful, blessed, constant mindset in Christ.
Hope is your confident and continuous expectation of experiencing God’s goodness. “Faith, hope, and love abide” (1 Cor. 13:13a). You never have to wait for them—they’re available to you always, a permanent resource, an unending inheritance of God’s grace. They’re who you are in Jesus.
The Bible says to pursue love (1 Cor. 14:1). So too with hope. Just as you exercise for the health of your body, work out hope for the health of your soul. Stir it up in your heart and mind until it overwhelms despair, disappointment, and doubt. Choose every day to make your confidence in the goodness of God the filter through which you see your circumstances, and the place from which you speak to everyone in your life.
Equip Your Spirit 