Psalm 62:5
My Soul Finds Hope in the LORD
5 Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.
In David's Psalm, he tells us that he finds rest and hope in the LORD...St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians to teach us that the Three Great Virtues in life are faith, hope, and love...The Hebrews author writes about his thoughts on the virtue of hope...The author writes that people swear by Someone greater than themselves, and the oath that God made with Abraham confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument...Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, He confirmed it with this oath...God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged...We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure...It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain of the tabernacle, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf, in the Holy of the Holies...Jesus has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek...
So Scripture tells us that we find hope when we flee to God for His refuge of hope...This refuge of hope is sure and steadfast...It is the “anchor to the soul” that fixes itself in the solid reality of God's Presence...And the soul is very, very important...Another Psalm teaches us that God will pay the price to save me from the grave...He will take my soul to be with Him. ..And Jesus teaches us with this question: "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?"...
Author Parker J. Palmer wrote this about the virtues of faith, hope, and love: “The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings...If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.”...
Mr. Palmer give his thoughts on the strength of our souls...The soul connects to our Father in Heaven...“When we catch sight of the soul, we can become healers in a wounded world-in the family, in the neighborhood, in the workplace, and in political life-as we are called back to our "hidden wholeness" amid the violence of the storm.”...“Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other...In the process, we become separated from our own souls...We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the "integrity that comes from being what you are.”...“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places...I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression...In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed...My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered...But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die...That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”...