The substance of things hoped for


"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase". I think the scariest thing one can ever experience is going into the unknown. By unknown I mean a completely new environment with which one is not used to or is experiencing for the first time. Hope can be defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. When you are writing a test that you did not study for you "hope" that you will pass meaning that you have a longing desire to pass the exam. So in other words hope is a feeling which is at times governed by emotions and circumstances. Hope arises in an unreal situation where all things are not considered real but there is just a longing desire for things to happen and come to pass.

The only issue here is that hope only exists in the mind and can be completely disregarded maybe due to circumstance like I said before. Hope keeps you going because there is a longing desire but then that is as far as it goes, it is just a longing desire and that is that. Hope on its own will not get you to were you want to be because you are believing in something that is not yet real. 

Faith is the only word in the bible that I have seen defined by the bible itself. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."~ Hebrews 11 vs 1. So the bible here clearly identifies faith as a substance of hope. Substance being the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence. 



I feel like for you to reach your goals you need to stop hoping for it but start seeing your goals and having faith in their attainment. Faith makes your goal real, real enough that you can touch it and experience it even before it happens. Faith is bold and confident  because it is something real and it makes all your hope real.

Let us move away from hoping to reach our goals and having faith that we have reached our goals already and see ourselves daily having reached that goal. The more you see it the realer it becomes and things will just start aligning themselves to give your hope substance. Have a blessed week and Thank God its Monday

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  1. Unknown22 November 2020 at 20:06

    Faith and working hard towards the goal thank you i am motivated to start seeing my goal

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  2. Miss G24 November 2020 at 04:01

    Ready fire aim

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