In our current situation, it is hard for us to feel hopeful, and possibly it compounds our feeling of hopelessness because right now the entire world is in excited anticipation of Christmas. How for once, we can take our queue from the world. To live in hopeful anticipation that God knows, God has this situation and our very lives in mind, and that He will undertake to see His will through.
In Romans 5:3-5, Paul says that we can rejoice in our sufferings because we are a people of hope: “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Rom. 5:3–5, ESV).
So, how can we have hope when everything looks hopeless? In the midst of suffering, we can rejoice because these challenges cause us to:
