Week 6 Insights

I absolutely loved one of the verses that came out of this weeks reading, it was Romans chapter 8 verses 25 and 25.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

I'm not good at believing in stuff I can't see, I never have been. The entire point of what he's saying in this verse though is that hope is hope because we can't see it. If we saw everything, then our faith couldn't be tested. The best I can do is to just hope. Because that's the entire point. 

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