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There are doubtless a host of reasons, why this is so, reasons we cannot imagine and could not understand if we were told. But there is also a simple reason we can readily grasp.
We must see that faith will become unnecessary one day; it will be replaced by sight. There is no reason to have faith, in the biblical sense, in what is before our eyes. The very definition of faith is a settled belief in the invisible. When reality presents itself before our eyes at the gates of glory, the need for faith will be past.
Hope will also be superseded in eternity. There will be nothing left to hope for--all possible fulfillment, glory and bliss will be ours as saints in the presence of God. "Who hopes for what he already has?" (Romans 8:24) But love is eternal, from the beginning until all ages. Father, Son and Holy Spirit loved when as yet there was nothing else. We are commanded to love in the present; the early Christians were known by their love. And love will continue in glory. It will be one of our privileges and duties hereafter to sing the praises of the One who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Faith, hope, love--but love is the greatest, being timeless.
This one is by Ron Carleton of Abbotsford, B.C.
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