Peter’s letter to new Christian churches and new believers is straightforward but wonderfully powerful and most of all, his letter is full of hope, a living hope. This hope includes an inheritance. In other words, we just receive it, regardless of what we have done or not done to deserve it. It is ours for the keeping.
The inheritance is quite the inheritance. Peter describes it as imperishable, undefiled and unfading. He goes on to let us know where this inheritance is kept for us – HEAVEN. What this looks like we aren’t exactly sure other than we will be with Jesus. However Peter reminds that it WILL be revealed to us when Jesus comes back to make all things new.
So there is much to be joyful about with this promise Peter shares with us even though this life, in this time and this place isn’t always so easy. Peter describes our challenges as trials, but trials that are only temporary as we rest in the promises of our Living Hope, Jesus.
- Acts 5:29–42
- 1 Peter 1:3–9
- John 20:19–31