Our Hope Is Not That Jesus Will Make It Easy
When you look at the possibilities of what your future might hold, do you hope for the absence of trials … or do you hope for the grace of God in the midst of the trials that might come. In the middle of Acts 28, Paul finally arrives in Rome - the fulfillment of God’s promise to him. However, his journey there was fraught with roadblock after roadblock, including a massive storm and a shipwreck. But in the midst of it, he experienced and depended upon the sustaining grace of God, teaching us not to hope for the absence of storms, but for grace to endure the storm.