A friend asked me this week, "How do we hope in God when we don't have a specific promise for our circumstance?" We both know that there are specific promises in which we can hope, but that isn't all that hope should be.
One thing that I have clung to is this: If my desire is from God, He will accomplish it (so I can rest in that), and if it isn't from Him, ultimately I don't really want it (so I can surrender that).
Somehow this isn't resignation, but surrender. The difference might be that resignation would expect the undesired end; but surrender to God expects a good end, and hasn't given up on the possibility that God will mightily work where things seem humanly impossible.
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