hope in the unseen

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"For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience." Romans 8:24-25


So I've been having time with God again as of late!  I decided that I would read Romans 8 because I heard it was a good chapter.  This morning (really this afternoon) I was reading Romans 8:18-25, and thinking 'what does this have to do with me'?  Such a selfish thought, I know, but lately everything I've been reading in this chapter has spoken directly into my life.  Then I got to verses 24 and 25 and bingo!  Lately, I've been saying (with a whiny undertone) that I don't even want to know how things get better, I just want to know when things get better.  I just want to know that I have just one more week until I have a job, or just a month until this other mess clears up, whatever, I just wanna know when.  Essentially, I'm tired of faith/hope and I just want security in the way the world has it.  Deadlines, plans, schedules.  This verse says that hoping for what we can see is coming isn't hope at all.  For instance, how silly would it be if you saw your friend walking towards you in the airport and you say "I hope he gets here soon, I can't wait to see him!"  Silly, right?  You have nothing to hope for because you can see your hope actualizing itself right in front of you.  I know that things will get better, but I don't know when and I need to be accepting of that.  After reading that, I asked God to helping with my hope because it's running dry, it's dying.  I need to have hope in the unseen.  Now about that patience...

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