Contemplation #121
“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:13
The grace of forgiveness replaces our distress over past failures with the comfort of being cleansed. Grace transforms what has been that we are powerless to change. But grace is so much more. It so envelopes our life that is speaks not only to our past, but our future as well. Our confidence moving forward through life is the hopeful and sustaining expectation that there is more of God’s merciful action to be enjoyed. We are walking forward into a life that has become, because by faith we embrace God’s grace, the pursuit of grace. The grace which we have experienced makes us hunger for more and more grace. We live between the grace which we have received and grace which we will receive.
Contemplation #122
“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:13
Peter encouraged his readers to look to the fullest revelation of Jesus, one which will be so clear and startling that the entire world will acknowledge him. This is the ultimate revealing of Christ in which mercy will be poured out in a new experience. Today, as followers of Jesus, we bring the future into the present— believing now what all will believe later. We know that the grace we have tasted is not the fullness of grace but only a beginning. Each time Christ is revealed more through our humble willingness to be instructed by God, we find new experiences of grace. Knowing the richness of grace, we look forward to more. We long for more. Our full hope is in grace yet to come.
Contemplation #123
“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:13
Peter directs us to hope in grace and nothing more. There is nothing else in which we can hope as we look to the return of Jesus. We cannot hope in ourselves, our understanding, our accomplishments, our obedience, our religious traditions, or anything else. True and pure hope is fully centered on the merciful activity of God which is directed toward us in Christ. This hope defines us as people of grace through and through.
“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:13
The grace of forgiveness replaces our distress over past failures with the comfort of being cleansed. Grace transforms what has been that we are powerless to change. But grace is so much more. It so envelopes our life that is speaks not only to our past, but our future as well. Our confidence moving forward through life is the hopeful and sustaining expectation that there is more of God’s merciful action to be enjoyed. We are walking forward into a life that has become, because by faith we embrace God’s grace, the pursuit of grace. The grace which we have experienced makes us hunger for more and more grace. We live between the grace which we have received and grace which we will receive.
Contemplation #122
“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:13
Peter encouraged his readers to look to the fullest revelation of Jesus, one which will be so clear and startling that the entire world will acknowledge him. This is the ultimate revealing of Christ in which mercy will be poured out in a new experience. Today, as followers of Jesus, we bring the future into the present— believing now what all will believe later. We know that the grace we have tasted is not the fullness of grace but only a beginning. Each time Christ is revealed more through our humble willingness to be instructed by God, we find new experiences of grace. Knowing the richness of grace, we look forward to more. We long for more. Our full hope is in grace yet to come.
Contemplation #123
“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:13
Peter directs us to hope in grace and nothing more. There is nothing else in which we can hope as we look to the return of Jesus. We cannot hope in ourselves, our understanding, our accomplishments, our obedience, our religious traditions, or anything else. True and pure hope is fully centered on the merciful activity of God which is directed toward us in Christ. This hope defines us as people of grace through and through.
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