Faith Hope Love

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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 1,17 (ESV)

 
1. Faith

Bethany is near Jerusalem. Lazarus had died. Martha and Mary had many people around them who comforted them. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she ran to meet him. Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would still be alive. But even now I know that God will give you anything you ask of Him.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.” John 11,25-27 (ESV)

A human encounter with Jesus is no longer possible. Or is it?

In a song it becomes clear:

When I meet the Lord in his word, when I see the great deeds of God, how he blessed the people of the property, how he loved them, pardoned them ever and ever.  Carl Boberg 1859-1940

Hear, believe and do God's Word!


2. Hope

In our colloquial language, hoping has the meaning of a certain expectation.

Jeremiah, the prophet of God, preached God's words to the people of Israel for decades. Return to God! Leave evil and do good. He was a faithful servant of his master.

In his Lamentations he lets us know that he was in a hopeless situation. At the end. Hope in the greatest need: But I still have one hope, I hold on to it despite everything:


The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. Lamentations 3,22-25 (ESV)

Living hope.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1. Petrus 1,3 (ESV)


3. Love

Many people confuse love with a feeling. When there is no more feeling, you give up. Love has its origin in God, revealed through Jesus Christ. Adopted and practiced by the believers - by us.


An example. Paul in prison in Rome. He writes a letter to Philemon:

Thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you. Philemon 1,4-7 (ESV)

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1. Corinthians 13,13 (ESV)

Love is fundamental to community, a treasure to each person. Anyone who wants to come and receive.


Author: Edith Waechter
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