Hope is Not Enough

Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness:
but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Hope is not enough. Both the righteous and the wicked
have hopes and expectations. But the hopes of the wicked are
dead because they do not have the life of the promises of Scripture,
which are spirit and life.

True hope can only be built on the foundation of the promises of God
and the faith that is born of His word. Death will reveal the vanity of
the ungodly: Pr 11:7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall
perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.