"Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
(PROVERBS 13:12)

Hebrews 10:23-25
“Hope deferred” is a concept that I have come to understand personally. For many years I lived in the darkness of not knowing the assurance of salvation. But hope came to me as I sat in a
death-row cell waiting for the date of my execution to come. I was a guilty man who knew he deserved to die for the crimes that he committed. Yet the moment I opened my Bible and began to read it, I discovered for the first time in my life hope and true love in Jesus Christ.


I know today that we all – imprisoned or not – stand guilty before a holy God. Hope is showered on every believer as a gift of the Holy Spirit, no matter where that person dwells. Behind prison walls I sit today in Divine Hope Reformed Seminary learning how to rightly divide the Word of God. No longer waiting for the executioner, now I await the return of my LORD Jesus Christ. Now I can say along with the writer of Hebrews and with any of you, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful” (10:23).



Scripture Focus

Hebrews 10:23-25

Insight

WRITTEN BY RENALDO HUDSON, SERVING A SENTENCE IN DANVILLE CORRECTIONAL CENTER
(DANVILLE, ILLINOIS).

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