In the last verse of 1 Corinthians 13 we read about three abiding or
enduring blessings that we have from God. They are faith, hope and love. Faith
is that ability to believe even when things seem so much bigger or complicated
than we can figure. We read that we are saved by faith and that we also are to
live by faith. God is faithful without flaw and He is the One that enables us
to believe, trust or have faith. He expects us to then walk in it.
Hope is that ability to look beyond the immediate and to anticipate a
good future outcome. God has promised that He will never let us go, and in
Christ we have been promised by our faithful God an eternal hope that does not
fail or fade.
And love is the most amazing blessing of all. It is because God loved
us that He sent His Son to go to a cross to pay for our sins so that we might be
rescued and restored to a relationship with Him. We even read that we love
because God first loved us. He is the One the put love in us and it is as we
grow in His love that we can appreciate it even more.
Love is also the most enduring of the three because one day in His
presence we will no longer need to have faith because we will see. We won’t
need hope because our hope will be realized. Love endures forever.
“For now we see in a mirror
dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully
just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these
three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 3:12-13, NAS)
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