The Christian Hope

The Christian Hope is not a wish, a desire or mere wishful thinking. It is an assurance and a guarantee, a confident expectation, a clear conviction, a reality. It is promised in Jesus Christ. God has given us His Son. Our source of hope is God.

Hope's Foundation
This hope will not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (Romans 5:5 HCSB)
Holy Spirit produces hope.

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. (Romans 15:4 ESV)
The scriptures give us hope.

Hope's Results
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. (1 John 3:3 ESV)
When you have hope, you will live holy life.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. (Romans 15:13 ESV)
Joy and Peace comes from Hope. Because of the Hope, a man can have joy and peace in the midst of tribulations.

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12 ESV)
Rejoice not in the circumstances, but in the hope of Jesus Christ.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. (1 Peter 3:15-16 KJV)
Hope gives us an opportunity to witness for Christ in a hopeless world.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: (2 Corinthians 3:12 KJV)
Since we have such a hope, we are dare to speak frankly and boldly.

Hope - look back at Calvary, look forward to Christ's return, look to the witness of the Holy Spirit within ourselves.

No matter in which direction a Christian looks, he finds reason to obey God. If he looks back, he sees Calvary, where Christ died for him. If he looks within, he sees the Holy Spirit, who lives within and teaches him the truth. If he looks around, he sees his Christian brethren, whom he loves; he also sees a world lost in sin, desperately needing his godly witness. And if he looks ahead, he sees the return of Christ!
Warren W. Wiersbe