In today’s first reading, 1 Peter 1:3-9, St. Peter blesses
the Lord, our God, for his great mercy toward us, namely, giving us “a new
birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance that is imperishable,
undefiled and unfading, kept in
heaven for [us] who by the power of God
are safeguarded through faith, to a salvation that is ready to be revealed in
the final time.”
Wow! God’s unsurpassable mercy was revealed in the Garden of Paradise when our first parents disobeyed God by succumbing
to Satan’s deceitfulness and false promises—something we do over and over again
every day of our lives! We are sinners
who prefer our will to God’s, sinners who easily get caught in Satan’s lying
strategies and his efforts to lure us away from the inheritance God has
promised us and, in fact, secured for us by His Son’s death and resurrection, that
is, by His obedience to the Father unto
death.
God held nothing back to guarantee us the inheritance of
adopted daughters and sons—an “inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading,
kept in heaven” for us. God eagerly
awaits the moment of our “salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final
time,” the time when each of us will leave this earth through the door of death
and rise to new life, eternal life, in Christ Jesus!
That is my hope! What is yours?
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