Rhapsody Of Realities - Thursday, July 31st .

The Virtues Of Faith, Hope, And Love .

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Pastor Chris

And now abideth faith, hope, charity (love) these
three; but the greatest of these is charity (1
Corinthians 13:13).
Faith, hope and love, are three important principles
revealed to us in the Word. All three of them work
together, but love is revealed as the greatest of the
three. Anyone who comes to Christ immediately
learns the value of faith, because faith is imparted to
your spirit when you hear the Gospel. With that faith,
you receive the Holy Spirit, and begin to walk in
newness of life.
As you mature spiritually, you learn something about
hope. Hope ministers patience. The more you grow
in the things of God, the more you realize that
though your faith can do anything, some things have
to wait. At this stage, you start learning how to trust
God.
Trust is the mixture of faith and hope. When the
Bible says Abraham believed God and it was
accounted to him for righteousness, he trusted
Jehovah with his life.
The reason love is the greatest is that love
encapsulates both faith and hope. When you walk in
love, you walk in faith and hope. To walk in the
greater levels of the anointing of God’s Spirit, you'd
have to understand the power of God’s love, and
walk in it.
The Lord Jesus explained something beautiful about
love in Matthew 22:35-38, when a certain lawyer,
wanting to test Him, asked, “Teacher, which is the
great commandment in the Law?” Jesus answered
him thus, “…Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the great and first commandment” (ASV). If
you ask people to list the Ten Commandments, they’ll
most certainly not start with this. They’d say, “Thou
shall worship no other God before me.” But Jesus
brought love before worship. He knows that if you’d
love Him, you’d worship Him.
It’s not so much what your faith or hope can do; God
is more concerned about what your love can do. Go
beyond faith and hope, and function in the arena of
love, where your words and actions are motivated
only by love.

PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for filling my heart with your
love by the Holy Spirit. This love overwhelms me
today, and many experience the joy and genuineness
of your love-power through me, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.

Further Study: John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. ;
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might.

Daily Scripture Reading
1 Year Bible Reading Plan: Romans 5:12-21,
Psalm 52-55
2 Year Bible Reading Plan: Ephesians 4:25-32,
Isaiah 51