DEFIANT FAITH

As long as there is God there is reason to hope.  Another way of saying it is THERE IS ALWAYS ABSOLUTE REASON TO HOPE.

Hope shakes a dead world.  Hope rocks an empty one as well.  We are to carry such an inextinguishable torch.  As long as there is God, there is always reason to believe.  As long as the grave remains empty, there is always reason to defy all odds by the application of faith.

In hope against hope Abraham believed; so says Romans 4:18.  When one's hope cancels opposing hope, there is still reason to believe God's promises.  Abraham believed such hope of he and Sarah having a child in old age.  Sarah pushed back with a cancelling laughter.  His hope against her hope; and God delivered His promise.

Our failures are largely when we abort Abraham's faith and take on Sarah's.  Our hopelessness cancels true hope.  We read the day's logic.  We see both people and circumstances and then pass assumed superior judgment.  Yet if such assessment is outside the realm of defiant faith, we lost another battle.

God's story is all about hope.  Paul assured us that hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our very hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.  What difference does the Holy Spirit make in this culture?  In this age of believing?

He gives us a defiant hope that will not quake in the midst of betrayal, disappointment, or opposition.  We have been handed reason to believe when others' hope would cancel ours.  From Abraham becoming a father at great grandparent age to Jesus coming back from the dead, we have a call from God to walk by defiant faith.

Romans 4:17-25.
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