1 John 4:19
ONE EVENING MY Friend showed the one of the three decorative plaques that would be part of the wall arrangement in her living room. "See I've already got love," she said, holding up the plaque with the word written on it. Faith and Hope are in order."
So Love comes first, I thought faith and Hope soon follow!
Love did come first. In fact, it originated with God. First John 4:19 reminds us that "we love [God] because he first love us." God's love described in 1 Corinthians 13 (known us the love chapter"). explain a characteristic of real love when it says, "Love never fails"(v.8).
Faith and hope are essential to the believer. It is only because we are justified by faith that "we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:1). And Hope is described in Hebrews 6 as "anchor for the soul, firm and secure"(v.19).
One day we will have no need of faith and Hope. Faith will become sight and our hope will be realized when we see our Saviour face to face. But love is eternal, for love isot God and God is love (1John 4:7-8). "Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love" it's first and last. (1Cor.23:13)
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