According to my earnest Expectation...the Wayfarer
According to my earnest Expectation
Philippians 1:19-21
King James Version (KJV)
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Expectation is derived from experience and hope that comes all too often slowly with the expenditure of labor that seems to be without end, seems to make little or no consequence despite that earnest expectation.
Expectation, without the expenditure of that labor despite the ever distant fruition, is expectation of failure.
If it were a matter of wishes only, without willingness to expend that labor, then, as the promises of the prosperity preachers would have you believe there need be no endurance, n be no need of repentance given for the redemption readily offered through the blood of Christ, no need of belief in His message, only the ever increasing wealth provided by their method that is reward enough in itself... in this world ruled by that false message that there is no other, no eternity to be faced.
1 Corinthians 15:19 King James Version (KJV)
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Expectation and hope only in this world would negate the very purpose of Christ's sacrifice, as well as denying His message so clearly given to all willing to be reached by it, of an eternal hope despite the trials and tribulations demanded that are evidence of that hope to those holding it.
The closer we get to the fruition of that hope, the evidence of the reason for that hope becomes all the more apparent, as does the necessity of faith.
Hebrews 11:1 King James Version (KJV)
11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
The admonition to endure in the face of adversity was not lightly given by Christ.
That admonition remains in place alongside all the teachings, all the parables, all the words summed up in a simple message of redemption requiring repentance and the commandment of love despite the lies that deny the love given us through His willing sacrifice.
No matter how many words are used, no matter the eloquence of any speaking those words, that simple message remains sufficient both in promise and in warning.
Both warning and promise remain in place and are unreplaceable, complete in their Truth, complete in the only Way given, complete in the Life that is the earnest expectation of the few willing to accept both as given.
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