Hope: Not "Maybe" but "Will Be"

"And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." (Romans 5: 5)

Hope is a confident expectation of good -- not a by-the-by wish or a partial likelihood, but an  impartial certainty. We have to stay steady on this hope:

"That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:" (Hebrews 6: 18)

and then

"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" (Hebrews 10: 23)

What was this promise, anyway? Paul explains to the Romans:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 31-32)

Christ is now living in every believer, are hope of glory (Colossians 1: 27)

Because Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father, justifying us before God on our behalf (Romans 3: 26), and He is now our life (Colossians 3: 4), our flesh can rest in hope (Acts 2: 26).

Peter spoke this verse on Pentecost:

"Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope."

"Rest" does not convey the total confidence accorded to every believer. Fully renders, we are forever "tabernacled" or settled in hope. Hope is our residence, we need never think that we have to strive to maintain or place in Christ. God has sworn that He has engraved us on His hands (Isaiah 49: 16)

Hope in Christ is not a "Maybe" but a "will be" and a certainty:

"For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." (2 Corinthians 1: 20)