40 Days of Hope
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This series of short devotionals from popular author and speaker Paul David Tripp encourages Christians to experience the life-giving message of the gospel every day. Each book contains 40 daily readings curated from the best-selling devotional New Morning Mercies and focused on a particular theme essential to the Christian life. Short enough to read in 5 minutes or less, each meditation will encourage readers to treasure the life-changing truths of God’s word more fully.
Everyone places their hope in something. If the object of a person’s hope is temporary, hope will be temporary. But if hope is placed in something that is immovable and unchanging, hope will be eternal. In this short devotional, Tripp explores the role of hope in a Christian’s everyday life. Through 40 daily meditations, Tripp reminds readers that hope is not a feeling, object, or place, but a person—Jesus Christ.
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- Offers 40 short devotionals curated from the best-selling devotional New Morning Mercies
- Focuses reflections on the theme of hope
- Encourages readers to establish their hope not on passing things, but on Jesus Christ
Top Highlights
“Hope always has three elements—an assessment, an object, and an expectation. First, hope looks around and assesses that something or someone could be better than it is; that that something or someone is somehow broken. If things were as perfect as they could be, you wouldn’t need to hope. Second, hope always has an object. It is the thing that you bank your hope on. You ask the object of your hope to fix what is broken or to deliver what is desired or needed. Third, hope has an expectation. This is what you ask the object of your hope to give you, what you hope the object of your hope will deliver.” (Page 12)
“Biblical hope is foundationally more than a faint wish for something. Biblical hope is deeper than moral expectation, although it includes that. Biblical hope is more than a motivation for a choice or action, although it is that as well. So what is biblical hope? It is a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that changes the way you live.” (Page 16)
“So be careful how you make sense of your life. What looks like a disaster may in fact be grace” (Page 23)
“What we’re all searching for is hope that won’t disappoint us, that won’t leave us hopeless in the end. And we all want to convince ourselves that what we have placed our hope in will deliver.” (Page 10)
“Situations can make your life easier, but they can’t give you life. Locations can bring some changes to your life, but they can’t give you life. Achievements can be temporarily satisfying, but they can’t give you life. True lasting hope is never found horizontally. It’s only ever found vertically, at the feet of the Messiah, the one who is hope.” (Page 11)