JUST one taste of victory — one solitary
experience — is enough to inspire hope that that hope can happen again. Even amid
failure after defeat after relapse after disappointment. Amidst trials through
despairs through trauma through calamity. If what occurs to us is juxtaposed
with sight of possibilities, real events that have happened before, a future we
can believe in exists.
Sums up the importance of
revelatory experiences of resurrection. That time or those times where we were
raised without first anticipating it. When somehow, we arose like the phoenix
from the ashes.
Maybe it’s a vision of a time that
hasn’t even happened yet. By definition, a vision.
It doesn’t matter what kind of
reality it is, if it gives hope it fuels faith, and faith compels love to
commit to the journey.
Christian faith is powered by a
phenomenon of miracles; inexplicable encounters where it could only have been
that God acted.
God can provide innovative,
original solutions to age-old problems experienced by all. Only our Lord could
do this, repetitively, according to His own will. Because in God’s economy, all
things are possible.
Ask any Christian who has
experienced some grace they could neither understand nor explain. That hope
that indwells them is unshakable. Though they cannot put a finger on it, they
cannot fail in believing it can happen again. And that faith means they endure
the arduous passage of the journey. To keep stepping faithfully is all that
matters.
Hope is that quality of life that
sits in the memory; an unforgettable grace-gift of God that compels obedience.
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