“Therefore, in our quest for faith, hope, and charity, we must beware of the dangers of doubt, despair, or disdain for the divine. Moroni so taught: ‘If ye have no hope ye must needs be in despair; and despair cometh because of iniquity.’”[i]
The Apostle John taught the opposite of despair is hope and that “every man that hath this hope in [God} purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”[ii]
The Psalmist wrote “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”[iii]
Hope can get us through suffering, afflictions, trials of every kind. The scriptures admonish us to:
“have patience, and bear with … afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions”[iv]
Quoting from the Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “We follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things.”[v]
The prophet Nephi taught that “a perfect brightness of hope” was the result of pressing “forward with a steadfastness in Christ”[vi]
And finally, Mormon asked:
“And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.”[vii]
[i] Russell M. Nelson “A More Excellent Hope” BYU Devotional 8 January 1995
[ii] 1 John 3:3 KJV
[iii] Psalm 146:5
[iv] Alma 34:41
[v] Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1:13
https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng
[vi] 2 Nephi 31:20
[vii] Moroni 7:41