FOLLOW JESUS: HOPE LIVES / NEW DAY

1 Peter 1:3

HOPE LIVES

In the face of mercy and grace
This hard heart continually breaks

Broken before the Creator of all
Hope lives

In the holy place of absolute strength
This weak human heart refuses to beat

Lying facedown before the Cross

Hope lives

In this faith of God's promised love

This fearful heart finds new courage

Kneeling before the Lord of life
Hope lives

In the assurance of God's provisionThis prideful heart falls apart

Confessing sin in the light of forgiveness
Hope lives

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A Way Out

Praise to God for a Living Hope

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸ Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹ for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. -- 1 Peter