A Great and A Glorious Hope

 The God and Father of Jesus Christ is deserving of our thankful praise and eternal worship for His overflowing grace and His abundant mercy. He is FATHER with respect to Christ's divinity and He is GOD regarding the humanity of our Lord Jesus and how we bless His wonderful name. This is my Father - and this is your Father. This is my God and your God.
 It is A Great and A Glorious Hope. It is a certain hope and positive hope. It is a hope anchored on God's unchangeable promises and steadfast name, written by the Lord's dear disciple, Peter. Though we delight in John as the apostle of love and Paul as our chief apostle of faith, we identify Peter as our great apostle of hope.
 In this chapter, Peter reminds us about our great inheritance that is being kept for us in heaven, and that this life is our one opportunity to prove our faith, as we walk by the Spirit to the praise and glory of the Father, eventually resulting in "praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
 Today we are strangers in a hostile world, in a place that is passing away, but our hope is securely grounded on Christ, Who is our Chief Apostle and our Great High Priest.
 Let us live upright and godly lives in this present age as we wait for that blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, in Whom we trust.
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Our United Prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father, how we worship You for Your overflowing grace and abundant mercy. Thank You that through faith in the death and Resurrection of Jesus, You have brought us into Your family and set before us the living hope of heaven. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.