While You Are Waiting on God's Promise
"For no word from God will ever fail." Luke 1:37 We don't always interpret the promise of God correctly, but we can rest assured that His promise will come to pass and that it will be even better than what we expected! In Luke 24, Jesus walked to Emmaus with two disciples who at first did not even recognize him. This was after his crucifixion had taken place and the two men were discussing their disappointment when Jesus joined them on their journey. One of the men made the comment along the way, "We had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel." Notice the phrase had hoped . Not we still hope, or we will continue hoping . As an English teacher, I can tell you that phrase means past tense; in the past, they hoped. With great disillusionment, all of their hopes died with the crucifixion of the man they had hoped in. These men knew the promise of God, had placed their hope in God's promise, but because of pre-conceived notions about how God wou