The Consequences of Hope

Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.

Hope is essentially a moral virtue. We hope that the future is better than the past, we hope for better things to come. Hope is a moral fingerprint of God in the hearts of human beings: we have within us the sense that God did not create the world this way, and that there is something better waiting for His children. As Christ-followers, that hope is magnified as we look to Christ.

In 1 John 3, the apostle tells the believers that one day we will see Jesus and be like him. He then adds, “And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.” In other words, because of our hope in Christ, we try now to live like Christ.

Christian hope is not just for that moment of death when we will be like Christ and see him as he is. It is also for here and now: that I have the life of Christ living in me today.

This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.