Hope focuses on God's heart (v.1-2)

• The heart of God surges with mercy, not wrath

Hope remembers the stories (v.3-15)

• Deliverance came by God's power (in spite of us)
• Salvation came through an instrument of deatl (v.13-15)
• Tell these stories because they are true

Hope reckons with the circumstances (v.16)

• No resignation or denying or willing them away
• Physical manifestations of panic followed
• Trusts promises more than perceptions

Hope refuses to cede joy (v.17-19)

• Lie: God is not powerful
• Lie: God is not right - 1 Peter 4.19
• Lie: God is not present
• Sing your hope to sustain your joy

Though there is no ________

Though ________ may fail

Though ________ be removed from me

Yet I will rejoice because God, the I AM, is my ________