God's Gift: Himself.

In my world there is a lot of confusion. There are a lot of mistakes. There are a lot of misunderstandings and frustrations. There is a lot of ignorance, greed, and arrogance. There is a lot of bad things in me that make me so imperfect and defiled. But thankfully, I also have something that keeps me going. More than one thing actually.

Hope. Faith. Love. 

I hope for the day that I will be healed of my spiritual infirmities. I hope for that day when I will stop living in ignorance, in greed, and awful arrogance. I hope for the day I become purity and no longer defilement. I have hope in the faith that I have in the God of Abraham,  Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the living. My faith is in the Holy Trinity. My faith is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It's my faith in Him that I have hope for my salvation from all those things, from myself. I have hope in my faith In Jesus Christ and while I do not know what it means to truly love, I have hope that my faith will continue to teach me who Love is, the greatest out of the three (hope, faith, and love).

How comforting. Scripture says that hope and faith will pass away. But Love will continue on. How interesting that hope and faith are needed only now and not then, in the after life. And it makes sense. In this world of confusion, in this world of suffering, we need all three in order to grow like trees with sturdy trunks and beautiful fruit. We need all three to live and to experience the greatest incomprehensible truth that is: Love. 

But one day, we won't need all three. Just one and only one. Suffering will be gone. Sin and evilness will be tamed and will cease to be in us. We shall be fully purified. We shall have obtained our hope, our salvation in full.

 Our reward and yet not our reward. Our gift from the Father of lights. 

Love. 

 Love is our salvation. It is our redemption. It will be the source of our purification and perfection. In the end, no longer will we struggle earthly struggles. Why? Because Love is the greatest. Because as Scripture tells us "God is love." That is why we can know for sure Love will never pass away like faith and hope. How can it when God is infinite?

My gift is God himself. I have hope in my gift. I have faith in my gift. May the Lord help me finish the race. May he help me overcome my world, the same one he said he had overcomed already. Help me Lord obtain my reward. 

Help me obtain you, to abide in you, the greatest of all.

Soli Deo Gloria.