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Faith, Hope, Love

Faith, Hope, Love

 Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
If you live in fear of what people think of you speak this verse over yourself daily. To remind you of The Lord’s thoughts about you are. You really don’t know what other people think about you so stop stressing about that because God has clearly told you exactly what He thinks about you.
Hope isn’t wishing for something. Hope is an expectation for what God’s already done and provided for you. Hope is directly connected to faith and love. You can’t truly have one of these without the other two. All three start with God and end with God and all the way in between are with God.
Really you can’t know or really experience true faith, true hope or true love apart from God. What the world has apart from God that it calls faith, hope or love is just cheap, worthless imitations.

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