Comments on: Hope, Not Just FROM Bad, but FOR Good https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/ on Life and Love Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:03:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Hope is a Verb: Practice It! | Curriculum of the Spiritual Life https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-321538 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:03:15 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-321538 […] – Hope, Not Just from Bad, But for Good Hope isn’t just a desire to escape FROM something bad. It’s also FOR something good to look […]

]]> By: floyd samons https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281197 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:36:45 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281197 This seems to point to that free will again. What power the gift of choice is!

I like the concept of “from” and “for”. That’ll preach!

]]> By: Linda Stoll https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281142 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 01:37:35 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281142 This, right here, Lisa –> ‘When I grow hopeless, it may appear to be prompted by outward circumstances, but it is actually a lack of trust from the inside out. Hope requires allowing my inner self to abide in Christ.’

I want to tuck this simple yet profound truth somewhere deep and keep it always …

]]> By: Linda Stoll https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281141 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 01:37:13 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281141 This, right here, Lisa –>’When I grow hopeless, it may appear to be prompted by outward circumstances, but it is actually a lack of trust from the inside out. Hope requires allowing my inner self to abide in Christ.’

I want to tuck this simple yet profound truth somewhere deep and keep it always …

]]> By: Carol https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281134 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:02:44 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281134 Excellent insights. I agree that “salvation is an inside job”!

]]> By: Barbara Harper https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281132 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:47:43 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281132 I like this emphasis on hoping *for* and not just against something.

]]> By: Lois Flowers https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281117 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:34:08 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281117 For me, true hope rises when I let go of my expectations and choose to trust God with the outcome. Sometimes I do this well, other times not so well. This was a thought-provoking post, Lisa. 🙂

]]> By: Michele Morin https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281115 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:41:47 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281115 So much of the Christian life really is “an inside job,” and we work pretty hard at trying to bypass this truth.

]]> By: bill (cycleguy) https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281114 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:14:37 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281114 As I read his opening statement something hit me. Wrong or right. Salvation from. Salvation to. Salvation for.

]]> By: Laurie https://lisanotes.com/hope-for-good/#comment-281113 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:31:45 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=16988#comment-281113 Loved this: “Just as with salvation, hope is an inside job as well”. So true. We each have everything we need for hope inside of us all the time.

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