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Rom.8:24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Hope is hard to find in suffering, but it is especially difficult to have in suffering long in our flesh. Moreover, it is almost impossible when it is unseen from human eyes, and yet that is the condition of God's children in the world. The world does not know them, because they do not know God, and many profess Christian's do not understand them because they seemed plagued of God in their sufferings.

Isa.53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
53:4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

But it is this fact of hope unseen that set creation free, but how? It is because in suffering the child of God is forced to walk in faith, it is the hope God has created in each one of His children by His love written into their hearts unseen that keeps them walking in faith.

Heb.11:1 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
11:2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
11:3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

That their suffering are not vanity, that their experience is not human and it greater than their flesh and blood, it is their resurrection from dead works each day and being brought into life with God's Spirit that reinforces the hope in them of creation being set free from sufferings, not in themselves, but rather in the body of Christ Jesus. It is the miraculous nature of their human existence that is proof positive God is completing His divine purpose in their sinful bodies for the rest of His creation that lets them see into the spirit world.

It is God's love that comforts them in all trials lifting them up in broken and weak bodies hated and ignored by the world that proves their hope is real. It is the daily attacks of wicked spirit force in heavenly places that teaches them that what is in them is greater than all human purposes and material blessing of this world. This hope is God's love, and it is God's love providing hope too them that it will be finished in moment into the glorious freedom of the Son's of God.

2Cor.2:14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
2:15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 2:16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

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