Hope vs Reality

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I guess it might depend on your perspective but I can't really separate hope from reality...I think if you believe in Jesus you shouldn't be able to say it's one or the other.

Yet, I know it can feel like a phrase in MEANTIME...'Hoping sure feels dangerous'...song by Joshua Leventhal. I tried to put a link here but it failed...You can find this song on Spotify if you want to hear it.

Anyway, I get it. I know the emotion of this thought. But it's not who God is. Neither does He want us living in a hopeless state, where it feels safer to be real and a little down in the mouth because then you won't be hurt later by dashed hopes and expectations. 

The thinking goes deeper than facing reality, it also lends an un-helping hand in making your own predictions while assessing what next faulty thing people will do or how something will turn out. It causes negative responses, judges others behaviors, and zaps the life right out of a fella.

Whereas hope brings life and joy and abundance. I challenge the thought that reality doesn't hold space for hope. I see the messes and the broken and the wrongs and the rights. But I don't see how being hopeless about them helps anyone. And I certainly don't see the reality of Jesus and the miracles He did in the gospels and currently in our lives today, interfering with each other. They go hand in hand. My reality is hope. Because what even do I have without Hope?

So if my hope in Jesus makes me seem unreal and lighthearted...Glory be to God! God is a God of Hope. He is salvation to the world. He is the ultimate Hope for all of Eternity.

Be like David in Psalm 71:14-16:NIV

As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long-though I know not how to relater them all. I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your deeds, yours alone.

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