Dec 27

 “……hath begotten us again unto a lively hope…” 1 Peter 1:3

We were by His amazing grace regenerated, brought to life again, reborn of God and this time, unto a lasting and eternal life. This is the living hope that the believer has been endowed with. The dead, inoperative and purposeless existence of the past is gone. It is replaced with the life that is in Christ, and is underpinned by an eternal hope, a hope of life without end in heaven with Him. The hope of our salvation - the eternal life to come - is the vision, focus and final outcome, of our faith in Christ. It is communicated to us via His mercy and grace, and established upon the resurrection of Christ Jesus, Who through His death, burial and resurrection, conquered death and the grave! The thought is breathtakingly grand and inspiring! We who were lost in hopelessness and despair, bound by sin to die and without hope of escaping eternal death, were begotten a second time - born again through the Spirit of God, and given new hope, living hope, eternal hope! This is the most amazing ‘second chance’ at life. It is a renewed opportunity to ‘get it right’ and this time not in our own strength or ability, but with and through the power of the Spirit of Resurrection and life! Having the infilling of His Holy Spirit and holding this new life in God, is a promise, a deposit, a down-payment on the eternal and everlasting life to come. The praises for Him who orchestrated this great plan and salvation for us, will flow freely from the hearts of the blood-washed redeemed, and will ring and reverberate through heaven and for eternity!


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