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INSPIRATION THE VIRTUES OF HOPE An assessment of our ability to survive now and into the future and a celebration of Easter Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. By Angela Mutiso, cananews@gmail.com Hope is broadly defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. It is a powerful tool in our lives. In this feature, we look at hope broadly; this is a time when Easter is celebrated. And it is commemorated with hope, faith and love. Discussing hope in desiringgod.org, staff writer Marshall Segal comes up with an interesting subject matter titled; Your Hope Is as Alive as Jesus. In his indepth analysis of hope, Segal states that hope can be a very dangerous thing. Your greatest wounds may be tied to unrealized dreams or unexpected disappointments. Unfortunately, the daily and worldly hopes we know in this life create some category confusion when it comes to our hope in Christ. Segal observes that Peter’s first letter is written to Christians in conflict. Since following Jesus, they have not found the peace or safety or prosperity or relief that they might have expected. This world and their lives continue to be marred by inconvenience, disease, disappointment, persecution and even death. They’re experiencing trials of every kind (1 Peter 1:6). Some are enduring sorrow, while suffering unjustly (2:19). They are receiving evil, being reviled (3:9) and slandered (3:16). They were maligned (4:4) and insulted (4:14). And these sufferings were common “throughout the world” (5:9). There’s suffering on every page of the book, and that is the scary, uncertain, painful context into which Peter speaks hope. The first note Peter strikes is one of praise. Blessed be the life-giving, deathdefying, overpowering God of absolutely miraculous mercy. If you believe and follow Jesus, you will face really difficult — maybe even more difficult — things in this life, but the God who raises the dead is your God and he’s with you. God has given you a new, true, full life through his Son, Jesus. And the life he gives is filled with an unconquerable, unquenchable hope. Hope That Always Comes True He goes on to say that God has caused us to be born again to a living hope, a hope which Peter makes deliberately distinct from a lot of the other hopes we’ve known. We hope all the time, and we’re often disappointed. I hope I get an A on that test. I hope they hire me. I hope she says yes. I hope we can get a new car. I hope he remembers our anniversary. Our hopes 46 MAY - JUNE 2017
INSPIRATION don’t always come true. This is not the kind of hope we have in God. Our hope in God is unlike any we’ve ever had, and that is because there is a moment in history that sets this hope apart from any other. Peter writes, “… he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…” The tomb could not hold the living, breathing, scarred, but victorious body of our Jesus. The man who claimed to be God, who committed no sin (2:22), and who died before hostile crowds, appeared again, just days later, before crowds bearing the wounds of the cross, but demonstrating a power and victory over it. He is alive. And here in verse 3, Peter connects this life, the God-man’s life after death, witnessed by hundreds, celebrated at Easter, with your hope. Believer, if Jesus lives, you will live; God established and secured your hope when he raised his Son. Therefore, your hope is as alive as Jesus…asserts Segal in this fascinating piece. Meanwhile, writing about how to create a more hopeful life in life hack, Maria Hill says hope is our emotional engine, the basis for engaging with life. In a spellbinding feature, Hill says hope is directly related to our sense of possibility; the greater our perception of possibilities, the greater our hope. How do we experience hope? Hope is what we feel when we think that life is worth living, that our work is worth doing. Hope is what we have when we have a positive relationship with our existence. It is the deepest of the three emotions. Happiness and optimism cannot exist without hope, but hope can exist without happiness or optimism. Hope is our energy, our fuel for living, so people will go to great lengths to create it and protect it. Without it you lack energy to engage with life. Hope is so essential that a negative childhood can reduce the brain’s ability to create dopamine which may lead to addiction because drugs increase dopamine levels in people who do not have the ability to create it naturally. Hope has to be real. It has to be based on something tangible. We can fake optimism and pretend to be happy but deep down inside, we know whether or not we have hope. We cannot really be fooled. When we are sizing up our hopes we are essentially taking an existential account of where we are. It is an assessment of our ability to survive now and into the future. Our assessment tells us where to put our energies and our time. Hope recognizes our interdependency with our families, culture, society and our environment. So a genius in a war torn country probably is less hopeful than an average person in a peaceful place. When hope is damaged it affects more than one person. When real hope is denied it is hard to replace. When a person has lost hope it can be hard to find motivation again. The most important impact we have on each other is through how we affect each other’s hopes. Hope breeds hope. When hope exists we engage with our environment more. We give more of ourselves to what we do – as does everyone else around us. Hope engages our creativity and our problem solving skills. It gets its hands dirty in the business of creating our lives. It values all of the details, skills and challenges that go into creating our world. Hope is grounded in present reality. It is our link to each other, the past and the future. It enables us to respect the efforts of our ancestors even as we decide not to repeat their mistakes. It respects the needs of other living creatures and future needs as well. It is the “something larger than ourselves” that we are all a part of. Living a hopeful life is to recognize that everything and everyone matters. That includes you since you are part of the hopefulness in the world. Taking care of yourself matters. The quality of the work you do matters. It matters how you are treated and how you treat others. In order to be an effective part of a hopeful world there are certain things that you need to do regularly: conduct a hope audit of your life, care for your health, have a stress reduction strategy, create hopeful relationships. Learn to forgive. Develop a daily journal writing habit if it helps you to let go of negative experiences and emotions. Help others see the best in themselves, being in Hope with Others God established and secured your hope when he raised his Son. Therefore, your hope is as alive as Jesus…asserts Segal MAY - JUNE 2017 47
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