Your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope. Faith produces works, love results in labor, and hope leads to endurance. These three, faith, hope, and love all come to us through Christ. When we obey, these three flow through us.
Faith in Jesus produces good works in us. Love from Jesus and for him prompts holy and righteous labor. Hope in Jesus results gives us the endurance to continue on.
As a Christ follower, the goal for me is to learn all I can and to grow all I can so that I may be available for the work God has prepared for me in advance. I don't grow for the sake of growing, I grow so that I may be useful in pointing others to Christ. Being a Christ follower means to do as he did.
He came, he healed, he taught, he died, he rose. He did that all out of love. He was and is the chosen one, the messiah. Never once did he deviate from his divine mission. He gave love because he is love. He gave hope because he is hope. He is faithful, and because of that we have faith. When we love God and love others we are love, hope, and faith to the world.
Faith in him leads to faith in others, love from him leads to loving others, hope in him brings hope to the world. Faith, hope, and love, three reasons we grow.
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