Hope offers an interesting paradox.
Hope looks forward with confidence and trust based on faith, a faith that comes at least partly from looking back and knowing God has always kept His promises. So hope looks to the future based on past faithfulness.
Certainly we live with confidence because salvation is assured, but hope isn’t about living in the past or the future. Hope is a good deal more practical.
Hope allows us to live with confidence in the present moment.
James 4:13-17 warns of boasting about future plans and concludes with this admonition:
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. (James 4:17)
So hope is all about the trust in the future based on faith in the past. That same hope allows us to follow Jesus confidently today.
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