Good morning. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy
and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the
Holy Spirit. It is one of those two way things. If you don’t have joy and peace,
it’s extremely hard to have any hope. If you don’t have any hope, you
definitely will not have any joy or peace. This hope is not just wishful
thinking. People will say, I hope that this or that will happen; but there is
no real conviction that it will occur. This hope comes by the power of the Holy
Spirit, and it is as real as it gets! I am convinced that you are full of
goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another. Paul
likes to give the people he’s writing to the carrot before the stick. He
butters them up first, and then smacks them upside the head. But I have written
very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you (as he has been doing in
the previous verses). We all need to be reminded now and again about things we
are supposed to be doing. Father go with the reader and his/her family. Help
them to make great progress on renewing their house.
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