Hope, in the Christian vocabulary, is a worldview word. If “faith” represents the reliance on an alternative reality based on the revelation of God according to his work and words vis-à-vis the past and present, then “hope” involves the sustaining of a present alternative view of reality based on what God has promised to do in the future. Christians do not look ahead simply in order to be done with life and float away to eternal bliss in heaven. They lean on hope to survive, live, and even thrive
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