"The substance of things hoped for..."
How often do we squander our hopes on fleeting, unimportant things. But this is the truth of man's sin nature, that we fail in that way, among others. However, through prayer, fellowship and the word of God, we may be renewed again and again.
An old prayer goes, "I thank You for rest and home and everything good." We do not take stock that way in the modern world; maybe we take too much for granted, and only when we see some catastrophe in a third world nation do we nearly have a moment of clarity, getting a sense of how blessed we are.
Let us not forget. Let us take heed and be thankful for how truly blessed we are.
