reader comment: hope

Christopher, of Got Fruit? fame, sends in this comment:

I most always view reference or mention of the word “hope” as synonymous with Jesus Christ; how He is the key to God’s plan for redeeming us through Him.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1st Corinthians 13:13

It took me a long, long time to realize that. I searched for all kinds of answers, never even guessing that God was part of the equation. And so all of my searches proved, if you’ll pardon the pun, fruitless.

Erwin McManus says that our souls crave God, and when we try to fill that craving with something other than God, we’re always disappointed. The more we put into our lives that isn’t God, the emptier we feel.