Today's guest post is from Adam Spafford. Adam is an options trader and a member of the MfD Board.

Hoping for something greater

We all use the turning of the calendar as a signpost: an opportunity to reflect more deeply on how life is going.

Undoubtedly, our reflections include hope for good things between now and the next signpost.

To hope is natural.

Although the more closely I read scripture, the more I realize how much of my hoping has been for material or circumstantial changes.

It’s not wrong to hope for improvements in temporal things. But when it's to the exclusion of the eternal--or with a willful ignorance of God’s sovereignty--I’m trying to use God instead of rely on Him.

Consider the prophet Habakkuk’s perspective:

Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
(Hab. 3:17-18)

Now, when have I ever hoped like that?

God is concerned with our material and circumstantial positions--however, He tells us what awaits us is so much greater.

So in this new year, here’s to hoping in Him who is so much greater.

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him (1 Cor. 2:9).”
 

Adam Spafford

If you missed Made for Dominion's year-end update, you can see it here: MfD Year-End Update