Hope 12/5 Monday Meditation

Hope is always future. Faith is always now. Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?" And they answer, "I hope it was." Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them. "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered." Hope is a beautiful thing when it is about Heaven, or the coming back of the Master, and everything that belongs to the future. But for present-tense practices and present-tense life, hope is a dangerous enemy. It is beautifu, but it is dangerous! The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success -- and believeing, you remember, is acting on the Word. -- E.W. Kenyon.