sorry, nope
"Hope is what we long for
But faith is all we need" - Colton Dixon
I was going to write a long, eloquent post about why I don't believe this is true. Instead I'll just leave it at two things:
1. I've suffered from depression. Life isn't worth living when you have no hope. Lack of hope leads to despair, and as Morilla Cuthbert said, 'To despair is to turn your back on GOD.' It's death. Hope isn't just something we long for. It is something we need. Faith without hope? What's the point? What is that even? What could that possibly look like? When I was at my worst, I knew enough to believe there's a hell, but I didn't believe in GOD. Did I have faith? In a way. A faith with no hope. It's death.
2. "These three remain; faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love." The three necessarily go together. If anything, love is all we need. But that is only because it ties everything else together. These three remain. Faith. Hope. And love.
But faith is all we need" - Colton Dixon
I was going to write a long, eloquent post about why I don't believe this is true. Instead I'll just leave it at two things:
1. I've suffered from depression. Life isn't worth living when you have no hope. Lack of hope leads to despair, and as Morilla Cuthbert said, 'To despair is to turn your back on GOD.' It's death. Hope isn't just something we long for. It is something we need. Faith without hope? What's the point? What is that even? What could that possibly look like? When I was at my worst, I knew enough to believe there's a hell, but I didn't believe in GOD. Did I have faith? In a way. A faith with no hope. It's death.
2. "These three remain; faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love." The three necessarily go together. If anything, love is all we need. But that is only because it ties everything else together. These three remain. Faith. Hope. And love.
posted by melilotnfosco | 3:41 PM
8 Comments:
Yes! (to you, not him)
I agree (with you).
i think faith is possible because we have hope.
"faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
the two go hand in hand.
yes
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just one more thought, from the other point of view. i don't know what this colton dixon song is, so i don't know the context, but i'm thinking of mary beth chapman, after her daughter died. she said she was emotionally numb - maybe with the exception of being angry with God - and felt as if she were in a free fall. she had nothing to hold on to; and yet, in the midst of all that, she knew that at some point, her free fall would end in the hands of Jesus. she couldn't see Him, she couldn't feel Him, she just wanted to curl up and cry. but she knew that He'd be there when she was ready.
that's faith. and when all hope is ripped away from you, faith can give you the strength to go on.
that's a fair point.
and I don't know if it's from a song. I just know he tweeted it.
I was thinking what hobbitsis thought...not about Mary Beth because I didn't know that...but similar thoughts along those lines. And the Hebrews passage...
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