Romans 5:5
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
So how much does God love those who are his own? By overflowing our hearts with the Spirit's touch. It is the Holy Spirit which pours God's love into us, filling us and overflowing our lives with God's grace.
I've come to believe the primary blessing given to every believer is the presence of the Risen Savior living within us as the Holy Spirit. It is this presence which fills our lives with God's love. It is this Spirit which gives us hope…for rightness with God, for an eternity in God's presence, for God's will to be done in us and through us, and for God's blessings, either here in the world to come.
Sometimes, we seem to live as those who have no hope, grumbling about our circumstances in life. But that is not the way it is to be for the believer. We are instead to be people of hope, since we have the Spirit's touch on our lives every day.
Paul writes in another location that we are a wretched people without the resurrection of Christ. Through the resurrection, sin's power is defeated and the Spirit comes to live within us. Instead, it would be a life without the Spirit which would make us wretched.
LORD JESUS
Lord, I thank you for your abiding presence, bringing the hope of your salvation. Amen.
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