Set your hope
Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
In these times we live in it is hard to set our hope in something.
- We could set our hope in a good job, but keeping it is completely out of our control.
- We could set our hope in the government, but even if all the leaders agreed on working for the best of our nation there would be a lot of things beyond their control.
- We could set our hope in an the economy, but the truth is that it has not been as volatile as it is now.
- We could set our hope in our savings, if any, but the constantly increasing cost of life if making us spend more than we make.
- We could set our hope in our retirement, but if we ever made it, it is possible that our retirement income could be not enough forcing us to keep working.
Nothing can be taken for granted anymore. We can’t certainly set our hope in the present, and less probably set our hopes in the future.
We could set our hope in life, but we know that sooner of later it will come to an end. Do we have any option?
set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed – 1 Peter 1:13
We can definitely set our hope in the gift we received when we believed in Jesus: Eternal Life. This gift goes beyond our lives and beyond this world.
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. 1 Peter 1:3-5
Christians have set their hope in things that will never perish, spoil or fade. Are we there yet? No, but while we wait we can enjoy the benefits of living abundant lives (John 10:10), and enjoy peace beyond understanding (Philippians 4:7), among other things.
Don’t lose hope, just set it in the right place: set your hope in Jesus.
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