Hope Sanctifies Our Future and Our Past

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The joy of youth

Hope and youth are concepts closely connected. Every time a speaker addresses a graduating class he’ll probably say something about their bright, hopeful, young faces. Why? What do hope and youth have to do with each other?

It’s pretty simple, really.

Hope is connected with youth because each young person, each person who isn’t fully grown, hasn’t yet tasted the fullness of human life, they can very reasonably hope that the best is yet to come.

That’s why the theological virtue of Hope really is the secret to eternal youth. Because no matter how difficult or joyous this life has been, the Christian can look towards heaven and say, “The best is yet to come.”