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from a response i wrote to a comment on my last post:
"of faith, which you talked of, hope, and love, i would prefer to have love. faith i'm not good at, i am, as it says, a wave upon the sand, unstable in all of my ways, easily swayed. hope seems to either be very subjective to my situation, or to follow faith, and this thus also elusive. but if i had to choose i would choose love; if i could hold myself forever apart from my equations, i think i could be eternally happy. not that happiness would be the goal, but if i could abandon my desire for self gain, which is my desire for faith, that I, I might be saved, and work with abandon, disregarding my own well being, my own righteousness, my own standing even with God, and live for, i'm not sure what... i dont' know what would happen then, but somehow i think that is love. Jesus gave up His standing with God, and that was love.
faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love. if it could be done, oh what a mystery."