Hope | 10 Bible Promises for Mamas
Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
For our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you.
Psalm 33:20-22
As I write this final post for the 10 Bible Promises for Mamas series, there is no greater finale than the hope we have in Christ, our confident expectation and the blessed assurance of the promise of everlasting life.
In all the humbling moments, hard weeks and heavy seasons of motherhood, God is inviting us to take hold of His peace, joy, presence, strength, guidance, deliverance, rest, purpose, mercy and grace, but the promise of hope we have in Christ is the greatest promise of all. Our hope is the crescendo of trusting in Christ and the victory of everlasting life; every other promise that God is inviting us to take hold of is ours because we have this hope in Him.
Hope is our confident expectation or assurance based on a sure foundation for which we wait with joy and full confidence. Our hope is secure in who He is, what He’s done and what He’s promised to come.
When the waters of motherhood rise and our hearts feel the weight of exhaustion, anxiety, frustration and overwhelm, this hope is the anchor for our souls, and this is the promise to which we cling. Hope is what draws us back to Christ, lifts our eyes to our Maker and reminds us that there will be a day when there will be no more exhaustion, no more anxiety, no more frustration and no more overwhelm…only the fullness of the presence of God and every good thing He has stored up for us in heaven for all of eternity to come.
As mamas, there is no better encouragement than the hope we have in Christ. It reminds our hearts that every humbling moment, hard week and heavy season we are walking through will end in victory, that the burdens we hold as mamas will one day be no more. When Christ died on the cross for our sins, he took on the fullness of the wrath of God, conquering sin and the enemy and then…He rose. His ascension back to heaven is the victory for our souls and because He is now seated at the right hand of the Father, we have the promise of everlasting life when He returns or calls us home.
Hope is the blessed assurance we have through faith in Christ, drawing us back to Him and pointing us to the promise of everlasting life.
1. Hope is the blessed assurance we have through faith in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:3-4
Blessed is to be made holy and assurance is a promise or declaration intended to give confidence. Thus, the blessed assurance we have in Christ means that through the death and resurrection of Christ, we have been forgiven, justified and made holy (or blessed) and through Christ, we now have the promise of eternal life as a promise (or assurance). This blessed assurance is our living hope, made alive through the Christ.
Mama, this hope is our inheritance because we are alive in Christ and born again as children of God…an inheritance that can never be taken away for those who are washed by the blood of Christ. May this blessed assurance we have in Christ become the hope we cling to, drawing our hearts to God and pointing us to everlasting life.
2. Hope draws us back to the heart of God and reminds us of our need for Him.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:1-5
As we receive this invitation and cling to the promise of hope we have in Christ, our hearts are drawn back into the heart of God and reminded of our need for Him, now and for eternity. When we abide in Christ and press into Him, we can learn to rejoice in all the trials, hardships and suffering that motherhood brings, not because we like or enjoy the feeling of exhaustion, anxiety, frustration or overwhelm, but because those feelings draw us to the heart of Christ, cause us to surrender and declare our need for Him.
Mama, as we trust in Christ and abide in Him, our lives are not promised to be without suffering, but the promise we have is in who Christ is now, what He’s done for us and what He’s promised to us for eternity, and that is the hope and promise that will never put us to shame.
3. Hope points our hearts to the promise of everlasting life we have in Christ.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
As we long for the appearing of Christ, the promise of hope points us to the crown of righteousness that awaits us in heaven. Righteousness means that we are “made right” in the eyes of God, not because of anything we have done to earn salvation, but because of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross. The crown of righteousness thus is a symbol of our adoption into the family of God and a declaration that we are “heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory” (Romans 8:17).
Mama, this is the hope we have in Christ. We have the promise of everlasting life in heaven, in the fullness of the presence of Christ, for all of eternity. Let that sink in, let it wash over your soul, let it bring you to tears, because there is no greater promise that this.
So, let me ask you Mama, are you living with this hope we have in Christ?
Mama, this is God’s invitation to you… the blessed assurance we have in Christ, that draws our hearts to Him and points us to the promise of everlasting life. When the waters of motherhood rise and our hearts feel the weight of exhaustion, anxiety, frustration and overwhelm, this hope is the anchor for our souls, and this is the promise we are invited to cling to.
Hope changes everything. May we be the mamas who choose to take hold.
As a way to celebrate these 10 Bible Promises for Mamas, I have collaborated with my dear friend, Annalisa Sawtell, who is an incredible artist with an inspiring love for Jesus and a heart for seeking beauty where truth and grace collide. Each week, she will be releasing a floral art print that captures the heart of each promise. Our hope is that mamas would download these weekly prints as a way to reflect on the weekly promise and embrace the scripture that reminds us of each truth.
Hope | Daffodil
Follow along with Annalisa as she shares more beautiful artwork and inspiring words on Instagram and at annalisavsawtell.com.
Join us for this ten week series as we unpack each one of these 10 Bible Promises for Mamas! If you missed the introduction to the series, click here to read. God has promised us peace, joy, presence, strength, guidance, deliverance, rest, purpose, mercy and hope in all things. I pray that His word is our stronghold and His promise is our hope. I’m praying for you, mama!
