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Bible Hope is a positive expectation that something good is

about to happen at any moment in my life.

I call this if it's broken, God can fix it.

I started one day just running references on the word restoration.

I think to restore something means to make it new again,

or even to make it better than new again.

I like that idea because when you buy something brand new,

there's no scratches, no nothing.

You just want to sit there and look at it.

You have a piece of furniture that's maybe 20 years old refurbished.

It still is just gorgeous, but it might have a little neck here,

a little chip out somewhere else.

But to be honest, if we look at those pieces of furniture like our lives,

I think those little necks and chips are what give us character.

If it's a piece of furniture, it actually makes it a little more

interesting, kind of wonder what all it went through in its life to get to that position.

I think that we learn from every one of our mistakes,

every single mistake that we make, we learn from it, and that's what gives us character.

I think that you have learned and grown spiritually through the hard things

that you've gone through in life.

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