The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in 1 Peter 1:3-5,
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade–kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time."
This passage is so far reaching to me! Our hope is a living hope in the resurrection. Not an "I sure hope it happens" type of hope, but an "I can't wait for when it happens" type of hope.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade–kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time."
Here is something I wrote on this passage in December, 2004:
This passage is so far reaching to me! Our hope is a living hope in the resurrection. Not an "I sure hope it happens" type of hope, but an "I can't wait for when it happens" type of hope.
Our resurrection brings an inheritance that will always and forever remain untarnished, pristine as it will "never perish, spoil or fade". It is kept for us and we are just as surely kept for him as we are "shielded by God's power."
Both we and our inheritance in Jesus Christ are untouchable. Whatever may attempt to take either us, or anything we have in Jesus Christ, would have to get past God's power and that just isn't going to happen!
What a God to provide us such sure and certain promises!
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