(Romans 15:13)
You know, the times are so bad so many places, we all just need to remember the HOPE. Not just any hope, "THE Hope." All of God's promises and works poured into and poured through the Amen, Jesus Christ. Look at the Romans verse, Paul used hope twice. Once to describe God as the God of Hope and once to pray we abound in hope.

This verse earlier in the book of Romans, chapter 8:24-25, made me smile: Paul was saying we eagerly await our adoption as sons of God, the redemption of our bodies, and-
"For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience."
With incredible logic the Spirit formed the thought into Paul's mind and with impeccable recall Paul wrote the wonderful truism, 'who hopes for what he sees?' Matthew Henry lived in the 1600s, he wrote of this verse,
"The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and but for a moment. How vastly different are the sentence of the word and the sentiment of the world, concerning the sufferings of this present time!"
"Yet this deplorable state of the creation is in hope. God will deliver it from thus being held in

"Believers have been brought into a state of safety; but their comfort consists rather in hope than in enjoyment. From this hope they cannot be turned by the vain expectation of finding satisfaction in the things of time and sense. We need patience, our way is rough and long; but He that shall come, will come, though he seems to tarry."
We have hope because He is the God of Hope!