In 1 Corinthians 13 in the New Testament of the Bible it says that the three greatest things in life are Faith, Hope and love. I think we would agree about love being super important, and we all understand that without faith a relationship with God would be impossible, but what about hope? We tend to define hope as “wishful thinking” like ” I hope it happens” meaning maybe it will, maybe it won’t. It is hard to imagine that definition of hope would make it one of the most important words in life. The word hope as a noun in the New Testament means ” a positive expectation of a future event”. This event that is referred to is entrance into heaven. This hope when it is in us as strong as love and faith controls every aspect of our life. It is like all day long the thought “I am going to heaven, I am going to heaven, I am going to heaven! Most of us need to work at growing to be much more loving than we are because we are so naturally selfish, most of us need to grow strong in our faith and are like the disciples of Jesus when He said to them “Oh you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And very few of us are strong in hope where the thought, “I am going to heaven, I am going to heaven” just keeps going round and round in our heads. Most thoughts repeated constantly would get boring, but the thought of going to heaven is so amazing that it just keeps getting more and more exciting. People with strong hope look forward with great longing to their impending death not in a morbid way but as an amazing graduation into an incomprehensible existence. I sing all day long a song with a hundred different tunes but only four words, ” I’me going to heaven”. I am anxious to end this life and get my new body, but I have so much more I want to do and I want to become so much more than I am in character. Kind of like being between a rock and a hard place.