Saturday, May 13, 2017

Hope may be hope for the wrong thing

Morning: Psalm 55; Exodus 40:18-38; Colossians 3:12-17
Evening: Psalm 138, 139:1-17; Luke 7:18-35
Ever had your hopes dashed? Our expectations about how God should act shape how we respond to events.  Some of us think God should do as we expect and complain when something else happens.  Or we say that just ‘proves’ God doesn’t exist.  This is why TS Eliot wrote, “Wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”  Eliot did not deny hope; he simply wanted hope to be more than wishful thinking, grounded in patient trust. Jesus and John the Baptist defied people’s expectations.  Did that prove them false? Check – are your expectations misplaced?

Graham

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