January 04, 2025
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His
abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Christian faith has always been synonymous with the hope of glory.
As yet we have only been invited, have barely started out upon the way to the great eternal supper. The eternal feast of life has not begun as yet.
Hope has, therefore, from the very beginning, imparted to Christian life its loftiest tone. Indeed, even during the preparation, in the Old Covenant, it was thus. The harps of the ancients never sounded more gloriously than when they touched the strings of hope.
If heaven is thus on the wrong side, what must it not be on the right side, said a reflective Christian as he stood looking up at the star-strewn heavens.
We human beings are created to hope. To such an extent that we cannot live without it.
The decisively important thing is not, however, that we hope, but that for which we hope. Most people hope in such a way that the very ability to hope dies within them.
But praise be to God who begat us again unto a living hope!
A living hope!
Peter no doubt means by this a hope that is fulfilled. Yes, perhaps he means even more: a hope which constantly gives rise to new hopes, which does not extinguish our faculty for hoping.
Hope is like the holy star which shone unto the Wise Men. It showed them the way and at the same time gave them courage to continue. Hope shows us the way in the darkest hours of life. We know that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.
Therefore we go through life confidently—onward toward death.
Blessed be God!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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