Waiting on God’s Hope

Are you waiting on the hope of God? What hope are you waiting for God to bring?

We can all find ourselves looking for hope at some point in our lives. We can feel hopeless in a sinful and fallen world. We long for something more and something better than this broken world.

C.S. Lewis said it this way, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world” (C.S. Lewis).

We have a homesickness for another desire and for another world where there is hope of something better and a hope for more satisfying realities. We hope for God and God’s coming kingdom of hope.

The Prophet Isaiah proclaimed, “‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.” (Isaiah 2:3-5, ESV).

The people of God were looking for the hope of God and his kingdom. They desired to be taught of God’s ways and to walk in God’s paths. The people were looking forward to a time of peace, where wars would cease and they would “walk in the light of the Lord.”

Hope is coming!

May we wait on God’s hope as we anticipate God, learn from God, and walk in God’s ways as we await his present and coming kingdom of hope.

A Collect for the First Sunday in Advent: “Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).