Hope is a bridge

Faith
Faith is trusting and believing even when you cannot see:
It's seeing things that are not as though they could be...
So today put all your faith and trust in Jesus The Lord.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for...

Love
God's love is walking in a deep relationship with Jesus;
It's always reaching out and seeing others as He sees us...
Let's share God's Word and His love--that's why we're saved--
For God so loved the world that He gave...

Hope
Hope is the bridge between faith and love;
It's like waiting for that special someone to call...
We are saved through faith--we are saved by hope--
Faith is the beginning, and hope is the bridge--

On the other side is love,
On the other side is God...

Now abides faith, hope and love, these three:
but the greatest of these is love....
for God is love....
He is love...
He is here

"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
       1 Corinthians 13:13   (New KJV)

"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he 
      that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
                                    1 John 4:8+16

Ephesians 2 (KJV)
[1] And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
[2] Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
[3] Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
[4] But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
[5] Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
[6] And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
[7] That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
[8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
[9] Not of works, lest any man should boast.
[10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Romans 8:23-27 (KJV)
[23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
[24] For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
[25] But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
[26] Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
[27] And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

--bro. tim pickl
Saturday December 9, 2006

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