Faith and hope are not the same

Hebrews 11:1

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

To walk in faith accurately you must understand that faith and hope are not the same, don’t mean the same thing. To understand this difference, let us look at another translation of our text:

“What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.”

Faith is an evidence of hope. This means faith is something you can see while hope is something you cannot see yet.

Faith is now while hope is futuristic. Faith speaks in the now and in past tense while hope’s language is either futuristic or present continuous. When you say God is going to do something or I am going to have it tomorrow, your language is hope language and not faith.  Have heard this statement? “my best days are not behind me they are ahead of me”. 

This sounds very good but the question is, when will your best days come when they are always ahead of you. The Bible talks about laying hold, you cannot lay hold when you are always putting your best days ahead of you. Say it this way instead, “my best days are not behind me, they are here now.”