"Hope": A Reflection
I hope it won’t rain tomorrow. I hope I don’t lose my job. I hope my friend will get better. We’re always hoping, hoping. But with these hopes come lots of doubts. Even the best weather forecasts can’t guarantee it won’t rain tomorrow. The current COVID pandemic does not guarantee that we will have a job. And none of us know how long we have left in this life. Lives can change in an instant. The word “ Hope ” is commonly used to mean a wish: its strength is in the strength of the person's desire. It means to trust in, wait for, look for, or desire something or someone. It is a word we use a lot. Recently on TV, there was a programme called ‘My family, the Holocaust and Me’. In it Rob Rinder said that what came through his mother’s tragic story was ‘Hope’. We all need hope. In the New Testament, hope is the confident expectation of what God has promised and its strength is in His faithfulness. In our New Testament reading from Ephesians, Paul prays that the God of our