Two Guages

Good afternoon, everybody.
There is so much truth in this one scripture. I think we could study it for a year and only scratch the surface. Much like every other scripture in the bible!
Romans 15, KJV
13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
New Living Translation
13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The definition of hope in the bible is not wishing, like we use it today. It is ‘ernest expectation’, like sticking your neck out looking for it. Our Father is called the God of hope here… He is expecting something from us. He believes in us! And He will fill us up, to the top, with all joy and peace as we believe. I heard someone use a parable to describe ‘the journey’ that we are on. He said when you are driving down life’s road in your faith-mobile, there are two gauges you need to watch; your joy gauge and your peace gauge. If they get too low, that is a sign you may be sputtering to a stop on the roadside of despair. You need to fill back up on the Word, because ‘faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God’.
You see, hope is the opposite of dread, which is expecting something bad to happen. Despair comes by hearing and hearing the words of the devil.
In this scripture God does most of the work. All we do is believe Him and He will fill us with all joy and peace, that we may abound in expecting good to happen. How will He do it? Through the power of the Holy Spirit. Oh, thank God for the Holy Spirit! The very presence and power of God living inside us! Awesome!!
I love you all,
healed by His stripes,
Nancy