Advent Week 1: Hope - Hope Unseen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we’re caught in the crucible

We feel nothing but heat.

We walk through fire and hope we find

The path beneath our feet.

 

We lift a prayer at every step,

Though we may also weep,

And hold in hope to the promise

That His love does not sleep.

 

It’s not until we’re looking back

That we can clearly see

The hope we held onto back then

Was there manifestly.

 

Yet, that is the essence of hope.

It’s not in what we see,

But is instead in the unseen

That we still know to be.

 

I’ve learned this lesson through the years,

It’s hope that sees us through

The hardest things we face in life…

If that hope’s born in You.

 

Romans 8:24

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?