Hope is defined by Google as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” It can also be defined as “a feeling of trust.” So faith is the belief that there is something better to seek, while hope is the expectation, or the certainty, that it is there. Ten years later, the tattoos are still there, but I gained the most valuable lesson from this experience.
“Why! I truly believe you could take this from me! Why won’t you do it!?” I was hurt. I did this patiently for months before I started to lose hope and I began weeping to God. I genuinely believed these Scriptures to be that I had the power and authority to believe something “as hard as I could” and it would be done, even if it meant defying the physical realm. In the shower I would see these tattoos and “wipe” them away along with a faithful prayer. I was barely 18 years old and working through some missed opportunities of my own personal development.
I remember about a year after getting tattooed experiencing deep regret, almost mourning a part of myself being lost. It often starts with the quote from Jesus in Luke 17:6 where He says, “ If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it would obey you!” Hebrews 11:1 gives this clear definition of faith: “ Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” Faith is one of the first things we learn about as Christians.
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