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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