Advent- Hope

Hope is not hard work and isn't human-based. It is time under tension with trust. Hope is the anticipation that something will be better or happen down the road. K.P. Donfried says that in the Bible, hope is not normally expressed as desire (something good that one would like to have happen), but as expectation (something good that one knows is going to happen and, so, anticipates). In a religious sense, hope is the expectation of a favorable future under God's direction. Does the way we "hope" point others to look confidently at Christ? If not, what or who is our hope in?

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 8:22-25