I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the difference between faith and hope. Faith is what you have when you can see the outcome in your mind and you believe it will happen.

Hope is what you have when you see an optimal outcome in your mind but you don’t believe it will happen. You just hope it will.

But Paul talks about faith, hope, and love, and he seems to imply that neither belief of an outcome nor the hope of one is what matters most.

Love plays the trump card.

“Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Cor. 13:13 Berean Study Bible

And that’s because both faith and hope are focused on the remaining years of our lives and how circumstances will affect us, whereas love is our investment in the lives of others in such a way that through us they are given hope and faith.

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