HOPE AND FAITH

Trudi Bond, SW Washington

 

Here is a simple experiment to explain hope and faith: Jesus said Christians are the salt of the earth – salt is what I will use to represent hope.  Since table salt is free flowing, each granule is individually separated from the others. Take a glass of water, a symbol for the Holy Spirit – and add the two ingredients together, mix well – and wait.

 

Salt crystals will begin to grow – making a very hard, concentrated substance. Those crystals represent faith. If you put a thing in the glad and drape it over the side, the crystals will grow higher and higher – until they have a whole new form.

 

It would take a lot of crushing to break those crystals and put them back into their old form. So, you can see once faith has matured it’s very hard to break. If by some unfortunate situation someone’s faith is broken up – get it back to the water (Holy Spirit!) …and it will grow again.

 

John 4:14 “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.”

 

Mathew 5:13  You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.”

 

You can see that hope is an essential part of the faith process. It is used in the beginning stages to create the foundation, along with God’s Holy Spirit – to grow a while new over-coming faith.

 

 

 

 

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