Our prayer verse this week from 1 Peter 1: 13-16:
Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
This morning I'm thinking about hope as in "set your hope fully on the grace to be given you". The lyrics "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness" come to mind. Also, from Romans 5 "And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." (v. 2b) and "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." (v. 5) We have been given God's grace already (for example, Ephesians 4:7 "But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.", but the really neat thing here is that this hope is going to be reality when Jesus returns. So I think the encouragement here is to live with the end in mind.
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