We Are Expecting!

January 18, 2022
Midweek Study with Pastor Edith
Romans 15:13

We are expecting! That’s right my family is expecting. Now before you start asking what you can bring to the baby shower, I just want to clarify that we are not expecting a baby, at least not that I have been made aware, but we are expecting the return of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. As such, we have hope. Hope for today, tomorrow and for eternity. Perhaps you have had moments where you thought you lost hope, it is easy to feel that when the world is as crazy at it is, but take heart, He has overcome the world (see John 16:33).

Because God in his mercy and grace made a way for us to be one with him in Christ, we can have hope. The Dutch priest and theologian Henri Nowen writes: “The paradox of expectation is that those who believe in tomorrow can better live today; those who expect joy to come out of sadness can discover the beginnings of a new life amid the old; those who look forward to the returning Lord can discover him already in their midst” (an excerpt from Never Forget Hope, 2011 pg. 56).

Are you expecting? I hope so. “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13).

Amen!