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Overflowing Hope

Well, world, I may have a new life verse. And room on the back of my right arm to get it tattooed :).

Anywho...it is Romans 15:13. "May the God of hope fill you with ALL joy and peace as you trust in him so that you may OVERFLOW with hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit." Emphasis placed on those two words is mine.

Where this verse has been my whole life, I cannot tell you. Well, actually I can. It's in Romans Chapter 15. Ha. I'm snarky today! But that is one of the things that is amazing about our God - and why it is important to be IN the word at all times. At different times of your life, or heck, even different times of the day, different things will jump out at you. Or the same things will jump out at you, but in new ways.

In this time of my life I am growing, growing, growing, in the Lord. And thanks to the words above, I am trying to be filled with ALL joy and peace and have myself OVERFLOW with hope. That image, of overflowing with hope is pretty amazing in my head. It contains a person (a little girl if I'm honest,) who is so excited at her future (she's skipping)- at really every day - that this hope is bubbling out of her. You can SEE it. Like she's surrounded by a big bubble and nothing can pop it, because you can't kill hope from the Lord when it's there by the power of the Holy Spirit. That bubble is impenetrable. And because she's got that unpoppable bubble of hope, she is filled on the inside with ALL the joy and peace her little body can contain. She knows a secret. That her joy and peace come because she trusts in her Creator. To express all this goodness to the world, she is holding the biggest group of balloons you have ever seen (Picture the movie UP here).

I want to BE that girl. I don't want to just see her in my head. That's my goal. Live with joy and peace and overflowing hope because I a) trust in the Lord and b) have the power of the Holy Spirit in me.

That's the hard part. Life, especially at this time, has its moments. Moments where I can't do anything but cry and ask God why in the world I'm in this place. Moments where I open my mouth and say things that are anything but positive that involve words I regret. Moments where I live in self pity / sadness / dread of the next chapter - which could be a LONG chapter! BUT it could also be a glorious one! :)

Yesterday I had such a moment. Where I cried out because there was no hope overflowing and darn it, I wanted it! The good thing was I kept saying that verse and listening to worship music. And I snapped out of it. After a short amount of time - which is progress. I am learning that when I'm at my lowest, I need to lift God up to His highest. He has never let me down. It's people who have done that. God has always done just as he has said / promised. And therefore I trust him.

It is because I trust him that I believe this promise from the Word of all joy and peace can come to fruition. He's where the joy and peace COME from, after all. If I don't trust him, my hope can't overflow, because there's nothing to have hope IN.

Let's find our trust. Let's find our joy. Let's find our peace. Let's overflow with hope. It's all in you through that glorious Holy Spirit!

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