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Sufferings Don’t Extinguish Christian Hope
Human hope tends to be extinguished by disappointments and setbacks. However, hope in God is not.
The prophet Jeremiah wrote a whole book of lamentations. He watched the downfall of the city of Jerusalem and the misery of its inhabitants, and this touched him deeply. His soul was bereft of peace, and he had forgotten what happiness is (Lamentations 3:17). He was clearly in deep trouble. However, in Lamentations 3:21-23 Jeremiah says something surprising:
“This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness."
Even in the midst of all this misery, Jeremiah called to mind the steadfast love of the Lord, and that gave him hope. The apostle Paul reports a similar experience. He even goes one step further and says that sufferings fuel hope: “suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope” (Romans 5:3-5). This is not a natural response to suffering. It is the result of “God’s love [that] has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Romans 5:5).
Have you experienced suffering? How did this affect your hope?
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About this Plan

For many people, “hope” is something positive but also something uncertain. If we hope for something, we are not sure whether it will happen. However, the Bible teaches us that there is a source of hope that is absolutely certain and trustworthy — God's character and promises. This reading plan is about hope from a Biblical perspective.
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