Faith and hope and love

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. - Colossians 1:3-8

Faith, love, and hope. These are the character of the church at Philippi that stick out from the very start. The faith, love, and hope of the Colossians were well known and spoken of it the region,

It is interesting that these are the three things that Paul wrote to the Corinthians – and now abideth faith, hope, and love.

I heard a podcast recently about how the the church should be examples of faith and love and hope to the world around us. Faith and hope and love are things that everyone is looking for today. As we all go through this crisis together we find a world that is craving faith in something, sone kind of hope for the future, and to see love being acted out.

The world needs to see our faith in Christ and our faithful behaviour. They need to see that we have an unshakeable hope that will last for all eternity. They need to see the love will always, always endure.

Our faith and our hope and our love are going to make all the difference in world and for the world and to the world. Crises can shake our faith and make us doubt our hope and fears for ourselves can rob our love.

May you and I ever manifest faith and hope and love to a world that needs it so much today.