1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now
abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is
charity.”
There is
another thing about hope; the Scriptures refer to hope as the anchor of the
soul. This means hope is that which holds one steady in stormy times. The
reason hope can do this is because hope is also defined as a confident
expectation that things will be better.
You can look at your marriage and have
hope, a confident
expectation that it will be better, that your tomorrow will
be better than your today. What this will do to you is that it will hold your
marriage steady in good and difficult times.
Now what
faith does is this, it takes what you hope for and brings substance to it. It
means it gives support to your dreams and expectations. It brings realities to
your hopes by putting action to them.
Let me put it this way: hope is like
having a vision and faith is breaking the vision into short and long time goals
and action steps to realizing those goals. So, in marriage , if hope says
tomorrow will be better in my marriage, faith defines or plans things to do to
have a better tomorrow.
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