I was watching Flashforward in the early hours of this morning and was really struck by on comment. One of the characters who has not had a flashforward and therefore will be dead within 6 months finally confides it to his fiancee. She says his flashforward can't be true because in her flashforward she saw their wedding day. Then she says 'I choose hope'.
She just decides to live her life as if that is going to be reality and ignore the alternative. It got me thinking about hope.
One of the things we've been reminding ourselves in the last few months as a church is that bible words have bible meanings. The hope that the Bible speaks of the Christian as having is dramatically different from that expressed in Flashforward. The believers hope is sure and certain, it is not just wishing for something nice to happen, because it is grounded on the character and actions of a faithful God.
We do not choose to hope simply because we do not like the alternative, we have hope because Christ has rescued us, the spirit lives in us as a deposit and because God has said he will take us home for eternity.
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