Hope springs eternal... so said -Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733.
Statements that last that long, down through human memory or postings not lost, must have some validity, else they would have been lost in the shadows of time.
At some point Hope must give way to Trust for while we may hope something may happen, if it is to come to fruition at some point we must Trust that it will else we are hoping on air.
Trust seems to go hand in hand with Faith that He that puts desires in our hearts puts Hope and Trust there as well.
Rush Limbaugh once said something that has stuck with me since then - "Words mean things". I know they mean things from painful experience. I've known many words that hurt either by my usage of them towards others or others towards me. I also know the painful experience of using words when I was using them without understanding.
Therefore going back to Faith, Trust and Hope what do they mean beyond the dictionary meaning to me?
There is the blurb in the Bible that says - Faith is the evidence of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Based on past performance we hope things will continue in that same vein and our faith is believing in things we cannot see be it God or some action we have faith in people to perform.
Trust is built on repeated actions either by God or man, a pattern emerges of their actions and thus a trust relationship with this is formed. From time to time they may not act as we would have them act but as they continue to show the continued pattern that what they say they will do, trust continues to grow.
Hope is more nebulous for while it may be a product of faith and / or trust, it may also be for some new action as well.
Sometimes though these all seem to blend into a fluid almost blended set of actions so that we may forget that they are indeed unique parts. They may be like a biscuit in that a biscuit is made of many individual parts but we usually don't think of them.
Statements that last that long, down through human memory or postings not lost, must have some validity, else they would have been lost in the shadows of time.
At some point Hope must give way to Trust for while we may hope something may happen, if it is to come to fruition at some point we must Trust that it will else we are hoping on air.
Trust seems to go hand in hand with Faith that He that puts desires in our hearts puts Hope and Trust there as well.
Rush Limbaugh once said something that has stuck with me since then - "Words mean things". I know they mean things from painful experience. I've known many words that hurt either by my usage of them towards others or others towards me. I also know the painful experience of using words when I was using them without understanding.
Therefore going back to Faith, Trust and Hope what do they mean beyond the dictionary meaning to me?
There is the blurb in the Bible that says - Faith is the evidence of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Based on past performance we hope things will continue in that same vein and our faith is believing in things we cannot see be it God or some action we have faith in people to perform.
Trust is built on repeated actions either by God or man, a pattern emerges of their actions and thus a trust relationship with this is formed. From time to time they may not act as we would have them act but as they continue to show the continued pattern that what they say they will do, trust continues to grow.
Hope is more nebulous for while it may be a product of faith and / or trust, it may also be for some new action as well.
Sometimes though these all seem to blend into a fluid almost blended set of actions so that we may forget that they are indeed unique parts. They may be like a biscuit in that a biscuit is made of many individual parts but we usually don't think of them.
