Product Overview
In this book, Lieut-Colonel Gilbert Ellis puts hope centrestage. In a series of short, manageable chapters he explores different facets of hope, using illustrations from life in a down-to-earth manner, Sometimes he startles us into thought, as when he writes: What is the first thing we stop doing when we become Christians? Sinning? No, we stop hoping! Hope ceases to be something we do and becomes something we possess.
Biblical quotations abound, and new insights can be gleaned from the novel approach that Colonel Ellis takes to familiar stories and sayings.
“Think about, it” he writes, “If anything has the capacity to disappoint, it must be hope. It’s the very nature of the word’ Yet with Paul (Romans 5:5) he can also claim that ‘Hope does not disappoint us’ as he grapples with its significance in the Christian life. And we receive the assurance that, however high our hopes, they still fall short of the glory that God, because of his great love, has prepared for us.
What a hope!
