Every once in a while, I’ll ponder the desire to purchase a
new laptop which mans I’ll go to Consumer Reports for their evaluations.
Then I discover laptops of all types with all sorts of
internal data I know nothing about ranging in price from a few hundred dollars
to a few thousands.
At this point my thrifty inner self says, “Do you really
need that?” You have a good computer and smartphone.
Life in the “earthly things”, our secular age, is about
looking to our concrete, material accomplishments for satisfaction, without
expecting God to be part of their lives.
Sooner or later, it seems, we’ll be asking “what’s the point?”
So, I have the latest, newest, or best laptop, is it as
meaningful as I’d hoped?
If it’s not, what significance is there in our daily routine,
relationships, and even our lives?
Where’s the hope?
What I understand Paul to be saying is when you “Set your
minds on things above” you are trusting in God’s promises.
Hope is in God promise that when we are striving but failing
to find meaning in our efforts, God is there.
Hope is when God is with us as we blunder through the “things
below” and then using them for some greater good.
Hope means it doesn’t matter how deep the pain or suffering;
no tear shed, no frustration, hurt, or loss, no tragedy –is ignored or
unnoticed by God.
Paul says that this kind of hope does not disappoint.
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