hope vs clouds

 

Hope to me looks like an elusive cloud; beautiful and wispie, hanging in the sky on those bright blue sky days, far above my head. If I stretch my arms up, way above my head, and jump I can grab onto it for just a second.  But it’s a cloud. It floats though my fingers and is gone. I had it, but just for a second and now I am looking up again searching the sky for more.  My hopes and dreams are big, well, not big, gigantic, really. And I think sometimes they are too big. Can the Lord do that? Is that too much? Am I worthy of such big dreams? Is my hope just wishful thinking?

Romans 15:13 says this

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.

My job is to trust…..So the question changes. 

Do I trust the Lord?  

Bottom line kind of question.  

Either I do or I don’t. 

And Honestly I get to ask myself the question often.  And the answer is not always pretty. I catch myself reaching for that cloud again.

Trust = Hope + Joy + Peace

Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, and confidence of the Lord

=

A strong and confident expectation, rejoicing, with an untroubled heart and freedom from fear!

Dreaming big!