365 Days of the Great Names of God, Day 330: True Hope

True Hope

"We have the true hope that comes from being made right with God, and by the Spirit we wait eagerly for this hope." (Galatians 5:5 NCV)

There is no one like God. 

He has no equal, no parallel.

He is incomparable.

Because of this, sometimes one of the best ways to better understand who God is is to contrast Him with what He is not.

God, our true hope, contrasts starkly—in the brightest possible sense—with false hope.

False hope promises more than it can deliver, but our true hope keeps His promises and delivers us.

False hope disappoints, but our true hope delights.

False hope fades quickly, but our true hope endures forever.

False hope is built on shifting sand, but our true hope is rock-solid.

False hope empties us out, but our true hope fills us up.

False hope holds something out to us and then snatches it back, but our true hope holds out His arms to us and then pulls us in close.

"Don't get your hopes up." Maybe you've been on the giving or receiving end of this warning. (I've said this to my girls when everyone at school was predicting a snow day, because I am a mean mom like that. For the record, though, I will say that my all-time favorite mom job was telling my girls when they actually had one.)

But God turns this caution to confidence. Go ahead, beloved! Get your hopes up! Way up! Up to the Maker of heaven and earth. Up to our incomparable, does-not-disappoint, one true hope.