Upside Down
Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. (Psalm 119:49 ESV)
Hope
We learn to be pessimists. Bad things happen. People hurt. Many folk have more fears than Space-X has satellites.
The things we see on the news, the things we read online, the things we talk about at the coffee shop all teach us to expect troubles. If not today, then tomorrow. If not tomorrow then next week.
And such low expectations often make logical sense.
But God’s People are odd. We have hope.
Not because our logic is different. Not because we observe different events. Not because we do not notice the same things that bring fears.
But because God gives His people hope.
Whether it comes through reading His Word… or whether it comes through the ‘peace that passes understanding’ (Philippians 4:7 ESV), we have hope.
Sometimes the hopeless might not like that. Sometimes it might confuse them. Sometimes they might mock or deride those who hope.
Because Who we hope in turns the world upside down.