We live in hope!

Today's second lesson was from Romans 5.  During these anxious days as a virus is spreading rapidly, these words remind us that we are a people who live in hope:

¹Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ²through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. ³And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. (Romans 5: 1 - 5)

And as Pastor Tuula reminded us in her sermon today:  God is with us.