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How Hope Becomes a Part of Who We Are
“Affliction produces endurance,
and endurance produces character,
and character produces hope.”
— Romans 5:3–4
These words are as challenging
as they are hope-filled.
But they are not empty platitudes.
The one who wrote them
knew hardship.
He had been arrested
and beaten more than once.
He had been slandered.
He had known long seasons
of doing without.
Paul never called these struggles
blessings in disguise.
But he did believe
that God was still working for good
in every situation
where people aligned themselves in love
with God’s purposes.
That conviction gave him
the strength to endure.
And over time,
endurance shapes something in us.
It forms a character
marked, above all else,
by hope.
Hope that is no longer just something we feel
from time to time—
but something
that becomes part of who we are.
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