Why God Remains My Hope

One of the most important components of the life of faith is that we must believe even when we cannot understand. Faith does not reside primary in the Christian’s intellect. Faith is housed in the spirit. We operate in confidence in God from the spirit, and our intellect is then informed by what we believe rather than our spirit being led by what we understand. It might sound like a hair-split, but it is not. When we have confidence in God within in our spirit, we are empowered to make our minds about how we will respond to all that life presents us. Faith often defies the facts. Our hope in God grows beyond our intellectual understanding of God. Yes, it is true: you must trust God beyond what you presently understand about God. This is how trust and hope grow within the Christian. This message harnesses the psalmist’s testimony of how he made up his mind to praise God, trust God, defy what he was sensing in the natural, and joyfully wait on the Lord to bring to pass what the psalmist was confident would happen in his favor.