I wait upon You for Your definition of the good thing You will not withhold from me.

Example of hope in the bible. Paul may give us the best example of hope in Romans chapter 8. Psalm 11981 My soul longs for your salvation. Psalm 169 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices.

As David prayed in Psalm 181. The hope is that even if youre caught in a serious sin and at a time of public shame and humiliation there is room for forgiveness even for the worst of sins. For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

My flesh also will rest in hope Psalm 119114 You are my hiding place and my shield. In the earliest times the Hebrew word for hope in the Old Testament was a word that meant a cord or an attachment signifying that a person was attached in safety. Here is a collection of Bible verses about hope that can be used as a weapon to fight back those threats and help us to see past this world to the eternal.

And follow up by reading our practical and uplifting biblical booklet Finding Hope in a Hopeless World. When the Bible uses the word hope it uses it in this sense. John Piper puts it this way.

For example Paul speaks of Abrahams hope in Romans 4. Psalm 918 For the needy shall not always be forgotten and the hope of. However the biblical concept of hope goes far beyond these.

Your Word promises no good thing does He withhold from those that walk uprightly Psalm 8411. Christ is the actual object of the believers hope because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled 1 Timothy 11. Lead me by Your truth and teach me for You are the God.