1 Corinthians 13:7, Charity Hopeth All Things (1)

1 Corinthians 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things …

To “hope” is to place trust in. Biblical hope has the idea of confidence, optimism and earnest expectation. Even when faith is shaken and trust is broken, biblical love continues to hope. Even in betrayal, love holds on tightly to hope. Such love knows no dead end. Such love always sees light at the end of the tunnel. Such love is never hopeless but always hopeful. It is because this love emanates from an inexhaustible source that supplies it. It is the love that is rooted in a God that is infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His love.

The prophet Jeremiah wrote in the book of Lamentations 3:18-26 these words of hope in the midst of greatest discouragement in the history of the Jewish people when the Temple was destroyed and God’s people taken captive, “…My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance; and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”

The anchor of Jeremiah’s hope is in the unchanging faithfulness of His LORD to love His people. His LORD will not do to him any bad but always good even in the midst of most intense affliction which came upon him and his people. Amen.