I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.I had to read it twice, but this verse jabbed at me. For a while now, I've understood that I've lost hope, that I don't see a better future. I look back at all the mistakes I've made, all the ways my hopes for life have gone unfulfilled, and I just don't see any improvement ahead.
However, verses like this need to remind me that the hope doesn't come from me. It's not something that I can generate on my own. It has to come through God's work in and around me, but I have to be open to that work. And it may still be true that in this life things don't improve; I need to be willing to accept that, and remember that the life beyond is the real goal.
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