As the elect children of God we are called to live in hope. This spiritual attribute has been distorted as most attributes have been by the world and their ideologies rooted in false doctrines. The word hope has been associated with an understanding that the object of one’s hope would be impossible to obtain. The world also sees hope as usually empty and not meaningful and most of all not real. The world can only accept hope as a form of acceptance of the reality of seeing what they don’t have and not being reality of what they have but not seen.

We know as believers that we live in hope for our salvation. This is an attribute of the elect of God. This is a belief that reveals our separation more fully from religionist of today. We are mocked at each corner for this position and doctrine for they in their own imaginations have the full assurance they are saved. The Word of God does not support this position, by the religionist of today. (1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear). We are called to answer man when questioned of salvation and our hope to do so not in a haughty spirit of assurance but of meekness and in an awesome reverent fear of The True and Living God who has given this salvation. The Hebrew and Greek translations all support the meaning of hope as being trust, expectancy, safety, assurance, and confidence. The purpose of God was not for a work to be performed that we might be assured in ourselves, but to trust, and be expectant, to be safe, to be assured, and to stand confident that our hope in salvation in Jesus Christ is not vain but the substance of what we have but is not seen and is made real through faith (Hebrews 6:11-12 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.)

A confession of belief is necessary for a child of God to reveal who they are. That belief is rooted and nurtured to growth in the doctrine of true hope. That confession must be made in the confidence of one’s hope. Hope is the expectancy of life and without this hope there is no understanding of life. Hope is not that which gives life, for only the Son can give life, but it is the substance of life. We run this race each day looking for those substances of the kingdom of God that we should stand affirm in our hope of salvation. Hope given by the Holy Spirit through faith causes us to look upward into the heavenly kingdom to see our object of that hope, God (Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God). Through the law we know we have death but through Jesus Christ we know we have life and this life is made real to us through hope and this hope brings us to focus our sight unto God. This substance is a glimpse of the child of God’s inheritance and through hope this inheritance is made real (Titus 3:7 That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.)

(Romans 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth , why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it.) Let us not be ashamed but stand patiently in confidence in hope for this is our Salvation.