Romans 5:5
The scripture for today is Romans 5:5
Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Our hope is founded on the promises of God. Just as faith works through love (Galatians 5:6), we have hope through the presence of His love in our hearts. “We have the most solid and convincing testimony of God's love to us, by that measure of it which He has communicated to our hearts. There it is poured out, and diffused abroad; filling, quickening, and invigorating all our powers and faculties. This love is the spring of all our actions; it is the motive of our obedience; the principle through which we love God, we love Him because He first loved us; and we love Him with a love worthy of Himself, because it springs from Him: it is His own; and every flame that rises from this pure and vigorous fire must be pleasing in His sight: it consumes what is unholy; refines every passion and appetite; sublimes the whole, and assimilates all to itself. And we know that this is the love of God; it differs widely from all that is earthly and sensual. The Holy Ghost comes with it; by His energy it is diffused and pervades every part; and by His light we discover what it is, and know the state of grace in which we stand. Thus we are furnished to every good word and work; have produced in us the mind that was in Christ; are enabled to obey the pure law of our God in its spiritual sense, by loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and our neighbor, any and every soul of man, as ourselves. This is, or ought to be, the common experience of every genuine believer.” Adam Clarke
Every follower of Jesus Christ follows in hope that is fueled by love through the presence of the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul wrote, “According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.” Philippians 1:20 Let us remain faithful for "hope does not disappoint."
God bless you as you continue in His service.
Tim