Holding your marriage steady!

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.