1 Peter 1a — Living Hope

The hope of the gospel is not that we'd take our fresh start and do it better this time: now I've got a chance to pay more attention, be more kind, somehow dredge up in my heart a deeper devotion to God. Instead, our hope is living because it's secured in and by and through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He is himself the hope, and the direction towards which this new life is pointed.