These two words have come to be at the center of what we are seeking to live out in our lives this quarter. Last quarter our focus was on love, Gods love for us and how that is more than enough for us. How we are defined not by the things of this world, but defined by the fact that God loves us, and the rest of our lives are to be lived out of the overflow of the abundant love of God.
1 Corinthians 13:13 says this…
“A now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. “
Here Paul is concluding up a section of his letter to the Corinthians where he is discussing the fact that without love all other things, even good things are pointless. God loves us, and this is the greatest thing there can be, and out of that love that we receive from the Lord we can have faith and hope. Because God loves us we can be faithful, to the commitments that we make, to the mission that we may find ourselves in. Whether that is being a student, a parent, a best friend, a boyfriend, or a wife, we can be faithful to those people who are in our lives because God is faithful in His love for us. Along with that we have a hope in the fact that Jesus has come to give us life, life to the full. Even with all the brokenness in this world and in our lives we have a hope in the redemptive work of the Jesus death on the cross and his resurrection. Hope that Jesus has redeemed and is redeeming this world. Faith and hope, two small words, made real and powerful by Gods love. This quarter we are seeking to live in relationship with our God with these two words being expressed in our lives as we live in the love of Christ.
Chris Thurton (UMin Greek Ministry Intern)
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