For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope f1or what we do not see, we wait for it with patience” (Rom 8:24b-25). Having hope in God and receiving hope from God, can fill us “with all joy and peace,” however, it takes “the power of the Holy Spirit” for us to be able to “abound in hope.” Let me tell you that there is real hope for those who have repented and trusted in Christ (Mark 1:15 John 3:16-17), including “this hope we were saved” (Rom 8:24a), but “hope that is seen is not hope. The Apostle Paul’s letter to the severely persecuted church at Rome was his attempt to hold onto their hope in Christ, writing, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope” (Rom 15:13). That’s why we can never “put no confidence in the flesh” (Phil 3:3b). Jeremiah puts it even more bluntly as he wrote, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD” (Jer 17:5). That’s me, and I bet, you’ve joined the club! Paul is trying to tell us to “Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation” (Psalm 146:3), but rather it is far “better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes” (Psalm 118:9). We are a lot like Paul who wrote, “For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate” (Rom 7:15b).

He wrote, “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Rom 7:19). The Apostle Paul placed no hope in himself to save himself or overcome sin by himself. One example is placing our hopes of overcoming sin in our own strength. I know people who are not saved and place their hopes in work, their family, their relationships, and other human things, but these things are uncertain. That’s like placing your hope on sand and not on the Rock.

I have been disappointed so many times by placing my hope in someone or something, I am sure I’ve disappointed other people who had hope in me, but the point is, placing our hope in human beings is shaky ground.

Hov did that so hopey u dont have