Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The glorious doctrine of hope

I have been impressed in my studies of the scriptures by the doctrine of hope.  It seems to me to be one of those ideas or concepts that we often assume we understand, but that has great depth once we begin to ponder and explore.

"Hope" is an unimpressive little word.  It's interesting that we find it in many scriptural passages in the New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants wedged between the great and powerful concepts of "faith" and "charity." We are often reminded that faith is one of the foundational principles of the Gospel; and that charity, the "pure love of Christ," is "the greatest of all."   But hope often lies unnoticed between those two other brilliant bookends of Gospel principles.