Hope

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1

As we look around in our world and see the brokeness and the evil that runs through every piece of it, I'm thankful for the reminder of Hebrews. As believers, we have our hope in the return of Christ when we He will make all things right again. There will be no more wars, anger, bitterness or strife that we will have to contend with. We will get to see his face and all will be right. And that will be just the beginning. As C.S. Lewis writes in the last paragraph of the last book of the Chronicles of Narnia series,
"And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

May we continue to strive for that day.