A New Living Hope
Friday, December 16, 2022
By Betty Coats
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-12
Key Verse: 1 Peter 1:6-7
So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
In this scripture Peter, and Apostle of Christ, is speaking to God's people who are being faced with trials, persecutions, and grief.
It also speaks to us today. His message is one of giving a new living hope by the resurrection of Christ. He tells us to rejoice in our trials and in doing so we strengthen our faith. He compares our faith to gold, which can be refined by fire, but then perishes. If our faith is genuine then it will not perirsh but brings praise, glory, and honor.
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When Christ returns and we rejoice with a genuinely rediscovered joy we will receive an inheritance of a new heavenly home.
In this Advent Season, may our faith be refined, and our response be one of Joy.
God of all hope: Fill us with the peace and assurance of Your love this Advent season. Open our eyes to see Your love that is lavished upon us each day. Amen
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