Hope Defeating Time

And hope does not disappoint, fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of, sadden, disillusion, dishearten, frustrate, or fail to satisfy our desire. Hope does not cast down, come to nothing, deceive, delude, disconcert, disgruntle, dishearten, disillusion, embitter, fail, fall short of, foil, founder, hamper, hinder, let down, mislead, not show, ruin prospects, stand up, tease, thwart, and finally hope does not torment us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
Romans 5:4-6

Time always moves, so unthoughtful time is. It just moves and plows through life leaving it’s casualties on the side lines screaming. “Wait, stop, I’m not ready to move, I’m not ready to be your friend and run with you.” In our struggle to find meaning, time just flies, minding its own business as if what it has done to us means nothing. Time is supposed to be good, and yet there are day’s time is our biggest enemy. Sometimes time is the very thing that becomes the author of our depression, our regret, our fear, our lack of trust, our confusion, our accuser. Time reminds us that it has gone by before and will continue to go by, causing the damage it desires to cause. Time controls our emotions, when it chooses to, telling us it heals. It can’t heal. Only the truth of God’s word, of God’s promises heal, without the daily reminder of the hope we have, time can’t heal. Time, you will never heal. But today, time, I tell you, you and your wicked lies of shame, regret, stolen ground, and hurts…there is one who Lords over you. There is one who can transcend you. There is one who is in no submission to you. There is one who to Him a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. There is one who can take all the damage it took you to create in a lifetime, and heal it with a sweet song of eternal joy. There is one who will stop you. He will end the strong control you have and the damage you do with that control. He will do what we, as His Children know He will. He will end your reign, continue His own, and the best thing about it…we will all be together. Those who you target for defeat and depression will be together and you, time, won’t be there. I will be there with my dad. Mike will be with his grandpa. Evan will be there with Tina. Shanen will be there with her mom. Mothers will be with the flesh of their flesh that you took from their wombs. WE WILL BE TOGETHER! We will be there with each other…without you, your power over us, and your victory in heartache. So today, I tell time, I tell death what the God of hope tells us all... When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." So time, you may a have a hold on me now and then. I may listen a little to the pain and lies you speak and be saddened by the ground you steal, but with hope in sight and with hope in charge, I say to you today, "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death is your sting? For the grass withers and the flowers fade, but the WORD of the LORD stands forever." Did you hear that time, I said forever…something you will never know.