Hoping til we know

It is difficult to learn to live with both truth that we know (certainties)and truth that we hope (uncertainties)existing in our lives. So much of our peace and growth comes from hoping, personal uncertainties and knowing, personal certainties. Truth that we hope evolves into truth that we know, growing into peace. Life and Scripture teach us to apply the proper verb, knowing or hoping, to the circumstance of the moment. For instance,"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes." (Psa 119:71 KJV). In life we experience suffering for a reason. It is a certainty that in suffering and testing we can learn God’s statutes. Hope holds us in our suffering until we can know that which the good Lord teaches us "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth," (Exo 34:6 KJV). This experience of converting “holding hope” to “knowing peace” changes us and, thank God, purifies us,

"But ye have not so learned Christ;" (Eph 4:20 KJV)

"If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:" (Eph 4:21 KJV)

"That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;" (Eph 4:22 KJV)

"And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;" (Eph 4:23 KJV)

"And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." (Eph 4:24 KJV)

We must hear and be taught. We must believe until we know.