Today's Beginning

Psalm 146:5b (MSG), "Put your hope in God and know real blessing!" Tuesday... So I hope so! Now over at the end of 1 Corinthians 13 there are three very important words. Verse 13 (NLT) says, "Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love." Now the focus of chapter 13 is love but those two other words, faith and hope also have great importance in our life. Faith believes God's promises are true. Hope expects their fulfillment. Faith is the foundation (believing God's word now). Hope is the outlook (anticipating what comes because of faith.)" And we need both. David over in Psalm 146:5b (MSG) focuses on hope. He says, "Put your hope in God and know real blessing!" Now we can hope for a lot of things. I hope it rains today and it did. I hope that I will live to be 78 and I have. Now those hopes don't have real power. It didn't rain because I hoped for it to rain and the same with me being 78. B...