Often my heart and thoughts become tangled with the past. As I read the Old Testament there is this itch to compare adversity to my own. With time the Holy Spirit has shown me that this brings me to a stall. While adversity has played a major role in my life I have no business attempting to explain it. That is truly the business of Jesus Christ. For all my Hope is in Him. My hope upon Jesus Christ is where I will remain. Jesus has established an anchor of Hope within my heart that will not be removed. Jesus has corrected within me something that has been long overdue. I failed to focus on the Hope fulfilled.
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."
Proverbs 13:12 KJV
The truth that I have come to realize is that this Hope is not deferred or prolonged because Jesus has delayed. No, it is because I am not seeing it. I have been blinded by the past. I fix my eyes and heart on attempting to understand the source of affliction and adversity and the whys behind it. This will never be my testimony or subject to speak on. If anything, my focus is on Jesus, the one who delivers. The Holy Spirit began to change my thoughts as I read the book of Job in the Old Septuagint Greek. I began to question what kind of writer I wanted to be. For too long it was easy to speak about adversity because it was all I felt at the time. This added to the delayed Hope within me. This delayed Hope made me sick. I am sorry Jesus I have failed to see the Hope you fulfilled at Calvary.
“Our fathers hoped in thee; they hoped, and thou didst deliver them.”
Psalm 22:4 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
“And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.”
Psalm 40:3 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
Jesus laid down His own life as a sin offering and then picked it back up at Calvary. This victory established the New Covenant. Jeremiah 31:31-34. Sin is forgiven and remembered no more. I will not focus on the hopeless thoughts of affliction and adversity. For that time is past and left in the ancient sands. I will cling to the Hope fulfilled in the victory of Jesus Christ now and to eternity Amen.
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