“It is what it is.”

You get up in the morning, do what needs to be done, function through the day—and yet inside it feels like you’re trapped…

You’re waiting for something to change. For a new beginning. Just for life to somehow, almost miraculously, turn for the better…

On the outside everything keeps moving, but on the inside you feel bound by worries, by God’s: “...not yet.”

It’s exactly in situations like this that the prophet Zechariah speaks about: the “prisoners of hope.”

That sounds contradictory—but it actually describes your life right now surprisingly well.

Because isn’t it hope that keeps us holding on? ❤️

We keep hoping, even though it’s exhausting. We don’t give up, even though it would be easier to just shut down inside. We don’t say, “It is what it is,” because deep down we know:

It may be this way right now—but it won’t stay this way, because my God is still sitting on the throne! 

On the throne of grace.The throne of victory.And the throne of miracles!

You don’t hope because everything is good—you hope in spite of it all.

And that is something precious.

Your hope is not naïve. It’s a bond with something that is more real than what you currently see.

A bond with your God—to whom all things are still possible!

Yes, there is something more real than what you see right now. And within that reality, the heavenly victory already exists today.

Do you know what encouragement Zechariah gave the people who were also still in that place of waiting and hoping? It’s the same thing God wants to say to you today:

“Return to your fortress, you prisoners of home; even now I announce that I will restore you twice as much.” (Zechariah 9:12, NIV) My paraphrase of this verse is: “You have not hoped in vain… You will receive double for all you have suffered!”

Hope doesn’t always mean the chains fall off immediately. But hope does mean that the story isn’t finished yet.

Keep hoping—because God is still writing… ✍🏻

…and His stories always end beautifully.

You are a miracle!