18 Why Your Story Makes It Hard To Hope

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hope is flat out agonizing. Hope requires that you groan inwardly while, at the same time, waiting expectantly. The alternatives to hope are a deadening of desire and a growing cynicism about what you can really expect from life in this world. Indeed, most hope is squashed by the simple phrase, “I’m just being realistic.” But our war with hope inevitably leads to God: will God respond to the cries of my heart?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves. I'm Adam Young and this is episode 18
0:06.8	in which we are going to engage the whole subject of hope. But before we begin,
0:13.3	several listeners have requested that I do an episode in which I respond to questions,
0:18.6	either questions about past episodes or questions about topics that I have not yet addressed.
0:24.7	So I'm going to do that. But first, I need your questions. So please email those to me at
0:32.8	AdamYoungCounselingatgmail.com and you will be instrumental in shaping a future episode.
0:39.9	Okay, let's dive into why your story makes it hard to hope. I'll begin with three sentences from
0:47.6	Psalm 27. Here my voice when I call Lord, be merciful to me and answer me. I remain confident of this.
0:59.4	I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and
1:08.7	take heart and wait for the Lord. That's three parts of Psalm 27. Now I know the word hope
1:17.3	doesn't appear once in those sentences, but in the last verse where it says wait for the Lord.
1:24.9	It's actually a Hebrew word kava which is sometimes translated hope and sometimes translated
1:32.5	wait. And that's instructive. It's helpful because the Hebrew language is telling us that there is
1:38.2	a linkage between hoping and waiting. Hope has a lot to do with waiting. If you're hoping for
1:45.9	something, you don't have it yet. So you're waiting for it. But hope is not synonymous with waiting.
1:52.8	There's one more element to hope. Hope involves groaning. Growning from the inside, longing for
2:01.3	something. Hope is groaning inwardly while waiting expectantly. It's groaning. It's longing for
2:11.6	something while at the same time, expecting it to happen. And boy, that is hard to do. Now this
2:21.0	is precisely what the German philosopher Nietzsche couldn't stand about Christianity. Nietzsche said,
2:27.3	look, you Christians talk about hoping in God. You say even though your life is not going well
2:32.9	currently, put your hope in God and things will change in the future. And Nietzsche says, look,
2:39.0	this is what so abusive about Christianity. It prolongs your torment because you keep hoping for
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