Misplaced hope

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; - 1 Peter 1v13

There is that word ‘hope’ again. In reality that is a major part of our daily life, isn’t it? It really is all about hope.

I like the practical application of this verse. My parrowphrase of it would be – ‘Get your act together, think about the right things and get serious about your faith. Rest in the hope that this is all going to be worth it when we see Jesus. When we see Him it will be worth it all.’

Our problem tends to be misplaced hope. We place our hope in our country’s security. We place our hope in our jobs. We place our hope in our bank accounts. We place our hope in our families. We place our hope in so many things.

The truth us that all of these can fail, and they sometimes do. If we have the wrong focus and our hope is misplaced we will get down and discouraged.

When that happens we need to realise that we have a better and more certain hope; the hope of his coming. We need to get serious about it and ‘gird up the loins of our minds’ with that marvellous truth.

Lets do something about our misplaced hope.