When we use the word ‘hope’ today, we usually mean that we ‘wish very hard’ for something to happen, although you might have varying degrees of intensity to your wishing. “I hope it doesn’t rain.” “I hope they put chicken on sale.” “I hope to get married one day.”
The Bible use of the word ‘hope’, however, is vastly different. Hope in the Bible is the same as expectation or assurance, knowing that something is going to happen. It isn’t just a strong wishing, and hoping that by mere wishing you will force something to happen. No, it includes a knowledge of the past character of the One in whom you hope and an assurance that they will act in the same manner going forward into the future.
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