Hope Is the Substance of Things Hoped For

The bible presents hope in god and faith in god in ways that are scarce distinguishable. For example, when psalm forty two says, hope in god. I have leaned on this in my discouraged time so many times. Hope in that psalm is virtually identical to faith in god as it relates to the future. In other words, thereis a reality in the future that god has promised and in some measure has revealed to us as precious worth living for, worth dying for. And we are hoping oobtain it. That is, we have strong confidence that god will grant us this great blessing of experiencing fully what we are now hoping for in the future.