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On hope deferred
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Solomon writes a quiet warning about waiting:
Proverbs 13:12 · NIV
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
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And yet Paul reframes the same waiting:
Romans 5:5
“…and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts…”
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Romans 8 — reflection
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Romans
Chapter 8
Romans 8
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. · · ·37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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