(True vs False) HopeThis is the true hope. Follow this.
Your hope is not that God wills to keep you off from all suffering. Jeremiah 29:11 teaches that God wills to bring you through all suffering. Suffering is a reality for God's people in this fallen world, and God's people will not escape it.
But God in the middle of the suffering, "I promise to enable you to endure it." And God doesn't promise in His word that suffering will end in a short time, that's a false hope—that has let all kind of people stray. True hope God promises (is) your suffering will end in a long term.
"Your suffering will not have the last word. I have a good plan for you," God says. "And My good plan is guaranteed to prevailed in the end."
Most of us would like God to work out our problems by the end of the week, not the end of the century which is why these false prophets were so appealing then that's why prosperity teaching is so popular today. But it's NOT TRUE. It is a LIE. God's plan calls for patient and trust.
What God says is when suffering comes, sometimes suffering stays.
(David Platt)
