Desire to Overflow with Hope?

 
 

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
(Romans 15:13, Christian Standard Bible)

“Hope of course always looks to the future. And since Paul has just quoted Isaiah’s prophecy that the Messiah will be the object of the Gentiles’ hope, we are given a clue as to what hope is in his mind. Paul is looking forward to the time the ‘fulness’ of both Israel and the Gentiles will have come in (11:12, 25), then to the culmination of history with the parousia, and then beyond it to the glory of the new universe which Jews and Gentiles will together inherit.

“Thus joy, peace, faith and hope are essential Christian qualities. If faith is the means to joy and peace, overflowing hope is their consequence, and all four are due to the power of the Holy Spirit within us.

~ John Stott, The Message of Romans

 
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