HOPE, FAITH AND LOVE

Hope, Faith and Love... the earthly trinity

Body, Spirit and Soul... the individual trinity

The Son, the Spirit and the Father... the Holy trinity

This is one of my more audacious writings, audacious because I know so little about the matter and it just seems 'inappropriate' for me to have a say in this... 

However, hard as I have tried to push it, it keeps tugging at me and I knew I had to write about it. I hope you read it with an open mind, I hope you think on it, and most of all I hope you tell me what you think about it.

Well, it all started on Friday, March 19. I was in a bus, staring out blankly through the window, my eye caught something - A Sign ...'Hope Nursery & Pry Sch, Faith Secondary School and Love International College'...

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Hope is a Secular concept.

Hope takes place when the mind is experiencing a desperate psychological need and is fulfilled by feelings of optimism and a motivating belief in one's Secular Will-power to attain that which is hoped for. Hope is earthly, and is of the body. It begs the future, hence is time dependent.

Faith is a Theological (Mystic} concept.

Faith has the same meaning as the secular hope concept but with one major exception; it is motivated NOT by one's Secular will-power but by one's "Mystic" Will-power that believes in a strict "Faith System". And for its many "faith" believers, produces the same results. This System is indoctrinated to one by infallible religious creeds that are absolutely unfathomable by any orthodox rationality. Faith is divine, and of the spirit. Faith is not bound within space-time and seeks its potency because it connects - outside space-time, the spirit of the individual and the Spirit of the divine. Faith, as Pastor Poju Oyemade succinctly puts it is "the manifestation of the spirit".

And love... I need more wisdom for this one... is a gift. The greatest gift of all. 1 John 4:8 states "...God is love" verse 16 lets us know that "...he that dwells in love, dwells in God and God in him". Love is beyond all comprehension of the mind and really is not deserved. We just live, and love. Man was created in the image of God, that is what distinguishes man from every animal. Thus, the ability of man to love is the evidence of his superiority among all that is flesh. Man can only love, because he has a soul - that part of him that connects with the Father. Man prevails because he has a soul; a longing to show love, compassion, endurance and sacrifice. Until he does this, he is nothing and is not fit to don the garb of righteousness. The soul gives substance to the individual.

As the Father is the greater among the three, so is the Soul in the individual and so is Love among all things of the mind. 1 Cor. 13 states "...I might have all knowledge, have faith to move mountains, but if I have not love, I am nothing" ....."And now, abides faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these three is love". Let us prove ourselves as worthy humans by giving love, not as a means to anything, but by crowning love as the Alpha and Omega - An end in itself. Only then can we experience its mighty reflective power and partake in the glorious kingdom that is to come, whilst granting to our souls that persistent touch it so deserves.

Pastor Oyemade would sure have been right if he defined hope as the manifestation of the body/Jesus and love as the manifestation of the soul/God. Because in hope we have the future, in faith we have redemption... but in love we have it all.