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Paul wrote that hope, faith, and love abide, and the greatest is love. The challenge comes when we think Paul is speaking in dictionary categories, rather than spiritual categories.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
That is why people define faith in natural terms. They say it is like the faith you have in a chair that it would hold up your weight, or they define love as sex and infatuation.
The hope that Paul used in this verse is the normal hope, the one in the dictionary. Meaning something that is not 100% certain, but that is what he wants and would look for how to do it. He was going to try his best and see how things go.
It's like marriage. You don't know how things are going to go. You are full of hope, you want to do your best, but there is no 100% guarantee that it will work out.
Look at God, he courted Israel, so to speak, and the relationship did not go well. It fell apart. Eventually, he divorced them (Jeremiah 3:8) in a figure and said they always go astray in their heart (Psalm 95:10).
But because He is God, he already knows the end from the beginning so even in the relationship he already said through Moses that they are going to go astray (Psalm 95:10).
God told a prophet to marry a prostitute, as an illustration of his relationship with the nation of Israel, marrying someone you know would be unfaithful and still doing it anyway (Hosea 1:2). That is God. And because God divorced Israel, chased her out of the promised land because of unfaithfulness and devotion to other gods, Jesus said a ground for divorce and remarriage is sexual immorality (Matthew 19:9). In a figurative sense, God divorced Israel and married the church. And Paul added that the grounds for divorce and remarriage would be desertion (1 Corinthians 7:15), illustrating Israel's separation from God to do their own things.
God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16) is just that: God hates divorce. God hated having to divorce Israel, but He still did it.
I say all that to show you that hope in the Bible depends on the context of its usage, as the focus verse is talking about natural hope where someone is unsure.
But hope in the spiritual context used by Paul, for example, in Romans 5:5, is different.
And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (Romans 5:5)
Hope is the other side of faith. Faith is beyond trust, maybe faith in the spiritual equivalent of trust, but it is not trust. No one will punish you for asking for evidence before trusting someone, or for trusting someone. But faith is different; it is spiritual.
Faith as a gift makes you a believer.
And you can reason your way to the door of the kingdom, but the gift of faith takes you there (Mark 12:34).
Faith is acting based on the reality of the unseen. It is acting as if the unseen is real. That is why faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8-9, Philippians 1:29). Trust is not a gift.
You are saved by faith, and that faith is a gift from God; and we are also told that we are saved in hope. That faith can manifest in you coming forward to be baptized (Acts 8:36-37), or to say words of confession to be saved (Romans 10:9-10).
Hope emphasizes the absence of any natural evidence; faith emphasizes that the evidence is different from natural.
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance. (Romans 8:24-25)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (1 Peter 1:3)
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
There is no way to define hope in those contexts using the dictionary. They were using natural words to convey spiritual concepts, meaning the reality as defined in Christ and in Him alone, that you cannot and do not find in any other context.
So to cap it up
Faith in the natural plain may be trust, but not in the spiritual plain, where it is acting based on the reality of the unseen.
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)
That is clearly not something you find in the dictionary.
So faith and hope are like two sides of the same coin of our relationship with God.
Faith tells you what is real, and hope is the anchor for the soul that attaches you to God, who you do not see for decades, but you remain a Christian.
Ignorant people think that your Christianity is a fad. They do not know that your soul is already anchored in God by hope. And faith and hope do not abide alone, they abide with love, so that we have affection for the one we do not see, and that drives our life (1 John 2:15-17).
All these are spiritual categories, as the love is strong even when we are persecuted for His name. People who think they should turn on the persecution so that they can break our attachment to God are ignorant.
And we sing to his holy name daily, yearly, monthly, even when there is no natural reason for that. Things of the spirit are truly foolishness to the natural man because they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).
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