Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Three habits for a hard stretch: rejoice in hope, be patient in trouble, keep praying.
Romans 8:24-25
Romans 8:24-25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Hope is for what you cannot see yet, so waiting does not mean it has failed: we wait for it with patience.
KJVRomans 8:24-25 in context
21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Paul’s fullest letter on grace, faith and life in the Spirit, written to the church in Rome.
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith gives substance to what you hope for, even before you can see it.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Paul, beaten and shipwrecked, calls his troubles light only next to the glory to come. Your pain is real; it is just not the heaviest or the last word.