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Reading: 1 Peter 1:13
Pray
We wish to find the truth
Veritas Serum
If you put these “truth tests” on someone and asked “where is your hope,” you’re sure to find a lot of different answers.
But no one would tell you “I don’t put my hope in anything.”
Men are made to worship something, and left to ourselves, we choose terrible objects of worship.
Calvin famously said in his Institutes that “man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
The fact that Peter has to tell us to set our hopes on God’s grace means that we tend to put our hope in other things.
So perhaps we need to start where we often are: diagnosing what we put our hope in and how.
Then we can look at how to put our hope in the right thing.
People Will Always Put Their Hope in Something
Your Hope Lies with Your Treasure
Your Hope Lies with Your Focus
This flows from the last point - so much in fact that right after Matthew 6:21 where Jesus says our heart is with our treasure, the very next sentence Jesus says “do not be anxious about your life.”
When we hope in the physical, temporal things, we constantly obsess about them.
The things we focus on become the things we trust in - that’s why the author of Hebrews directs us in 12:2:
He’s telling us to lose the distractions and focus on Jesus.
When Christ is our focus, he becomes the thing we rely on, trust in, and become like.
So a quick acid test: how do we know where we are putting our hope?
Whatever we treasure and whatever we focus on - that’s where our hope lies.
Do you value Christ’s redeeming work, or is something else “more valuable” in your eyes?
Do you focus on Jesus or on someone or something else?
In the words of Ross King, in his song “Clear the Stage,”
Anything I put before my God is an idol
Anything I want will all my heart is an idol
Anything I can’t stop thinking of is an idol
Anything that I give all my love is an idol
We must not worship something that’s not even worth it
Clear the stage, make some space, for the one who deserves it
As Believers, We Must Put Our Hope in God’s Grace
We Must Be Ready to Act on True Hope
EXP: the word used here refers to a soldier grabbing the robes and tucking them in his belt so that he has the freedom to move around in battle.
We Must Be Awake to the Dangers of False Hopes
We Can Look Forward to the Outcome of Hope with Certainty
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