Segunda Galilea writes ‘but the Christian hope includes knowing that the future promise is already inaugurated in the risen Christ, who works through his Spirit to anticipate in history “a new heaven and a new earth where everything will be better and more just”. Does hope orient your life or is it a last resort when everything else fails? Ask the Lord to make you a person of hope.
1 Peter 1:3-12
Peter’s first letter starts on a note of praise to God for granting the believers scattered throughout Asia Minor a new beginning, and a present and future hope (v 3). Under Nero’s reign many of them had been tortured, some were fed to wild dogs as a form of entertainment in the Coliseum. Peter writes to them conveying words of encouragement and hope (1:7-9; 4:12 -19; 5:10 -11).
Why do you think Peter refers to Christ as the living hope?(1:3) The new birth gives believers a unique inheritance, described in the Scriptures in various ways (Psalm 16:5; Romans 8:16 ,17). Reflect on your inheritance and give thanks to God for it.
Meditation
Thank the Father that in Jesus you hae a living hope. He has also given you a unique inheritance. When trials come they are not there to destroy you, but to refine your faith.
Shalom,
Moshe.
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