HOPE

Faith must have an object

Faith is confidence in what one hopes for and assurance about what one cannot see. Logically, faith cannot exist without hope for there would be nothing in which to have confidence and assurance.

Hope is based upon something better in the future, something that one believes in his heart and mind will come to fruition even though he cannot see it in the moment. To have hope in the things of the World results in cognitive dissonance because the promises of man will always and eventually fail. That kind of hope will not support faith.

But hope in the Lord will never fail—it is the confident expectation and blessed assurance of eternal life with Christ. That is the kind of hope that will support faith.

Faith must have an object