Faith, hope, love

We remember your works springing from faith, your toil springing from love, and endurance springing from hope. (1 Thessalonians 1:3)

Faith, hope, and love.

Father, let everything I do spring from these things.

Not from obligation. Not from feelings of having to “gaman”.

But faith. Faith that you are a good God. That you love me. That you know and desire my best.

Love. Love for you. Love for others.

Hope. Knowing that this world’s problems, that my problems…they are but a blink in the face of eternity. A hope that I have because of you, Jesus.

Through you, I am forgiven. God is not punishing me somehow through my problems.

Rather, through you, I have free access to the Father. And just as you were, I am chosen and beloved by him.

Help me to always keep that perspective, moment to moment, day to day.

I wait on you, Jesus. I wait on you.