Romans 5:5 · World English Bible
Romans 5:5 Meaning And Hope Doesn’t Disappoint Us
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
What does Romans 5:5 mean?
Rajā': Hope Al-Ghazali separated hope from wishing by asking one question: what has been planted? A farmer who has sown and watered can expect a crop, while a man expecting wheat from bare ground is only dreaming.
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Rajā': Hope Al-Ghazali separated hope from wishing by asking one question: what has been planted? A farmer who has sown and watered can expect a crop, while a man expecting wheat from bare ground is only dreaming. For anyone worried that their hope is naive, the question turns inward: not the odds ahead, but what has already been put in them.
He loves them and they love Him: His love comes first Sufis reading that line in the Quran always stop at the order of the words. Whatever warmth a person feels toward God started on the other side and arrived; nobody manufactures it from scratch. That takes the weight off the days when someone feels nothing, since the love holding them was never theirs to produce.
Fayḍ: Overflow Al-Ghazali pictures light spilling from a lamp: the source loses nothing, and everything near it is lit. Grace reaches a person the same way, in amounts they did not measure out and could not have earned by good behavior. For someone emptied by a long stretch of trouble, the supply was never coming out of their own reserves in the first place.
I breathed into him of My spirit: the gift was placed in us God says this of the first human in the Quran, and Ibn Arabi builds much of his reading of Adam on it. Something of God's own breath sits in a person before they have done anything to deserve it or spoil it. So someone straining toward a closeness that feels far off may be reaching for what was set in them before memory begins.
Dhawq: Tasting Al-Ghazali came to trust only what he had tasted, after years of clever arguments left him unsure of everything. Being told honey is sweet and having it on your tongue are two different things, and only the second holds up in a hard week. Hope stays steady when it rests on something met firsthand, because no argument can talk a person out of what they have already tasted.
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Live Romans 5:5 today
- On a flat day when you feel nothing, stop testing the feeling. Make the coffee, step outside for a minute, and let the day be carried by something other than your mood.
- Tell one person what has actually held you up, not the version that sounds good. Firsthand beats impressive.
- When you are running empty at work and someone needs patience from you, admit quietly that you do not have it, then give the next five minutes anyway. The supply does not have to be yours.
What have you tasted for yourself that no argument could talk you out of?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen · Dogen
A painted cake will not satisfy anyone's hunger, however good the painting. Hearing about water and drinking it are two separate events, and only one of them holds in a hard week.
Bhagavad Gita
The divine is described as seated in the heart of every being, already there, not waiting to be summoned from outside. Whatever reaching a person does starts from something already placed in them.
Tao Te Ching 6
The source is pictured as a valley spring that pours out and never runs dry. What comes from it was never drawn from your own small supply.
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