April 26, 2020 - 1 Peter 1:17-21 - "Hope Is a Smaller Piece of God's Greater Plan"

What kind of hope would we have if we lived only in fear? First of all we would only worry about everything. Secondly, our lives still culminate in death. What would we gain? That is why we have Easter! Jesus’ death and resurrection was God’s plan from the beginning! From his first promise in the Garden of Eden, to Jesus’ words of promise and hope while he was alive, to the Scriptures retold by the resurrected Savior on the road to Emmaus, to God’s words of peace and certainty that we still read and hear today. Yes, we will have plenty of reasons for fear and worry on account of our sin and this broken world. But our lives are not left to that alone. Rather, we have been redeemed by the death and resurrection of Christ. And our lives are strange to this world as we, by faith, emulate certainty in God’s plan beyond life in this world.