Living Hope

Do you have a living hope? Do you believe you have an inheritance? Do you believe it is perfect and will never go away? Do you know it is held in perpetuity for you? Do you know it is held in the most secure place it could ever be held? Are you anxiously waiting for it to be revealed?

The hope of a Christian is to be a living hope. Why? Because our hope is in the risen Son of God. It is not a false hope. It is hope based on the promises of God. It is based on Jesus Christ. Our hope is not wishful thinking but one the Creator of all things. Our hope is belief and trust.

One of Jesus’s promises is that an inheritance is waiting for us. It is not just any inheritance, but one that is perfect and imperishable. It is an inheritance that is safely kept for us in heaven and protected by the power of God. There is no safer place our inheritance could be kept. We can be assured it can never be taken from us.

Our lives are to reflect the living hope we have. It is to reflect the trust we have in the inheritance that is waiting for us. It is to be lived with confidence, not in ourselves, but in God, who loves us and has our best interest at heart. As we live in the hope we have in God, we live the abundant life Jesus promised us.

I pray we all choose to live in the hope of God. I pray we know we have an imperishable inheritance. I pray each one of us live in the power of God and trust him at all times. Live in hope. Know you have an inheritance. Trust it is protected by God. Live in confidence.

1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.