Hope vs Faith or Faith and Hope

Good Morning!

I am in need this morning of my Saviors voice to stream into my room with a bountiful ray of joy.

Knowing that only he can supply my needs and only he will fulfill all that is hopeless and faithless in me.

See hope deferred kills the very fiber of your being, yet patience is required to deliver a thing.

So how then do we separate the two or better yet how do we change our views. To say it is not hope deferred any more but it is patience working its course.

See how we view life is critical to what we get. In other words our minds thought process must align with faith not just hope. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the EVIDENCE of things not seen yet!

So how do hope and faith differ? Faith and hope are defined in the dictionary as follows; Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing or a belief not based on proof and Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation or desire. Faith says it is so now, and hope says in the future it could happen.  

Faith being the substance of things hoped for means that we must have a base mindset of faith in order to receive what we need from God. We have to truly know and believe that what we set our minds to believe and focus on is what will come to pass.

 I believe that the problem occurs when we never pass from hope to faith. Hope always speaks of the future and faith speak for the now in life. So once we graduate from hope to faith we will then begin to see the fruit of the seeds of our thought process now. We plant seeds everyday even if we think we do not. Our thoughts are our seeds of this life so what are we planting.

Let’s forget about the past hoped for failures and begin to live by faith alone. Its sounds like a tall order for those who have only lived by hope but let’s challenge ourselves to live by faith today.

Sharon

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