#3688 – LOVE Always Hopes

Good morning people who have a YES in your heart about what God has said

1 Corinthians 13:7 NIV It (LOVE) always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Although very similar in meaning, as I meditate on this verse further, I see that ‘LOVE always trusts’ is saying, “I believe You God”, and ‘LOVE always hopes’ is confidently saying, “Yes Lord” even in the waiting.

Here’s something I see in the Greek for the word ‘hopes’: ‘to wait for salvation with joy and full confidence’.

Further to my thoughts above, I wonder if trusting God speaks about our belief, and hoping in God speaks about our attitude.

I wonder if trusting God speaks about ‘God can’ and placing our hope in God speaks about ‘God will’.

In both cases, LOVE has a posture and position towards God.

LOVE says, “Yes Lord!” about Who He is and all that He has promised.

As someone once said, “If God says it, I believe it, that settles it!”

Simply put, LOVE is confidence in God; He is always trust-worthy.