by Pastor Darryl Woodson
Come now,
you who say, ¨Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city…whereas you
do not know what will happen tomorrow. _James
4:13-14
In this generation, most people believe that
their tomorrow is more important than their today, yet now, in the present have
we been clothed in godliness and in Jesus Christ. We are, and not will be, great,
dressed and ready to go. Much attention must be paid to the present and I know
that who I am now is what I always will be, a son of the living God, blessed
and justified.
My best days are now, and are not yet to
come, the future is for God to set in place, the present is for me to live in
the fullness of. There is neither better tomorrow nor better to come, nothing
like after graduation or after a promotion or marriage will I find my purpose,
my purpose is who God says I am now, His workmanship.
And herein is our destiny, to be loved by God
and to become love to others.
And now
abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. _1st Corinthians 13:13
Hope is our proclamation, faith the
activation, the victory. Hebrews 11:1, 1John 5:4
This hope we
have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the
Presence behind the veil, _Hebrews 6:19
With an anchor for my soul as this hope, I
know that the reality for me and all who have believed is that; I am not an
empty cup, I mustn´t trust my feelings and I must spend time in the presence of
God daily.
...that He
would grant you,…to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner
man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;… _Ephesians 3:16-19
Hope is good but it is different from Faith;
• It has to
do with what I will receive while faith with what I already have,
• Hope looks
at what it doesn’t have while faith at what it already has,
• Hope is a
future thing while faith is a now thing,
• Hope is
about what is coming while faith is about what already is,
• Hope has to
do with trusting while faith has to do with manifesting,
• Hope is my
trust in something that has yet to be fulfilled while faith is about something
that has already happened
• hope dreams
and plans, faith carries out the plan.
Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. _James 1:17
If we put our faith in the One who gives, and
not in what is given, how different our hearts and lives would be? How
different would your life be, if you looked at the God the Giver and not at the
protection or provision, or the favour?