Between Wanting and Having
In housegroup we are currently using a study guide titled “Surrending Your Life For God’s Pleasure” from Zondervan. It contains six sessions on worship. I’m finding it an excellent resource. Tonight, the session was about surrendering your future. I thought the following passage from the book was very well written.
Hope is about the future. Hope is wanting and believing in something you don’t have yet. And in that space between wanting and having, between the present and the future, lies a gap that you can fill with one of three things: despair, fear or faith.
- Despair is the decision to quit hoping, to quit wanting anything because disappointment has broken your heart.
- Fear seeps in when you want something but lack confidence in God’s faithfulness.
- Faith upholds you when you want, and even when you ache while you don’t have what you want. It helps you stay focused on God’s trustworthiness.
Is there something you have hoped for and have now given up? Is there something you hope for but are not sure that God will come through for you? What fills your void between wanting and having?