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NASB | Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. |
Subject: How is hope deferred? |
Bible Note: mommapbs, You asked, "how could it make the heart sick?". It doesn't make the heart sick in the physical sense but in an emotional sense; wanting the promise to come but having to wait for that which is promised, with a longing that sometimes comes to the tune of pining. Like wanting to be with your loved ones and at a time they are separated from you and your heart aches for them. Your heart is sick for them. You said, "Jesus said that He came to give us life - abundant life, right here, right now!" and "He gives us HIS desires", yes these are true and because we have these things now they are no longer a hope, they are a reality. Hope is something you wait for, something in the future. Spiritually we are seated with Him in heavenly places (Eph 2:6) but physically we are bound, for now, to this Earth, this dust. (2Co 5:6 KJV) "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:" For as Moses knew God by voice and fire, his desire was to look upon His face but this flesh cannot contain the glory of His physical presence for the flesh is corrupt and nothing corrupt may enter into His presence. So we hope for the incorruptible. For if we hope in Christ only for the things of this life, or if our hope in Him is bounded with this life, and confined to the things of it, and does not reach to the things of another life, the things of eternity, the invisible glories of another world, to be enjoyed in soul and body; "...we are of all men the most miserable." (1 Cor 15:19) So, "exercising the hope that is within us" is no longer hope but faith, for faith is that of the present and hope that of the future. I guess sometimes I get a little melancholy, for I am ready to depart and soon the time will be, as with all of us, for as my youth was just yesterday my time will be as close as tomorrow. (Rom 15:13 KJV) Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. terrib |