# “Here is hope” by David F. Wells

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2011/02/01/here-is-hope-by-david-f-wells/
- Published: 2011-02-01T12:35:37-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“To the Church has been given the charge of proclaiming the Word of God. This revelatory
Word is not a concatenation of human opinions and ideas but rather is God’s own 
proclamation, the very means by which He speaks, even into postmodern society.

It is, therefore, the making possible of what would be entirely impossible without
the grace of God and the powerful working of the Spirit through whose work, and 
despite the stammering and faltering lips of the preacher, is heard once again the
divine summons to stand before God and hear His Word.

Here is hope. We have not been cast adrift upon an infinite ocean but, rather, we
find ourselves in a universe not of our own making where all our best thoughts of
God are swept away as upon a ferocious current only to be replaced by the eternally
simple speech of the triune God.

He draws near through His Word, He lifts the fallen, He feeds the hungry, He corrects
the wandering, He rebukes the self-sufficient, and everywhere there is found the
sweet fragrance of His grace where He has spoken through His Word and ministered
by His Spirit.”

–David F. Wells, _[Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802829023?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 176.

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