WEDNESDAY November 1st
HOPE – 1 Peter 1:13
‘Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.’
In the troubling times in which we are living in, we have a hope that keeps us going!
We link this hope back also to verse 5 ‘who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.’
We have a hope that is steadfast and certain, and John reminds us in 1 John 3:3 that ‘everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.’ Our hope is linked back to the call to holiness!
Hope produces holy living.
The Christians hope is not a wishful hope but it is affirmed and guaranteed by the reality of the resurrection of Jesus. Because he lives, we KNOW that we will also live. Our hope is based upon the faithfulness of God and in that not one of his promises will ever fail.
Our faith is based upon the truth or reality of what has already happened and the assurance that what has happened has secured our eternal future.
I love Romans 15:13 ‘May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.’
We have a hope that is steadfast and certain and it is founded firmly upon and in the Lord Jesus Christ.