SCRIPTURE FOCUS: 1 Peter 1:3 NIV 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.
First comes Mercy, then comes HOPE!
On this third week of Lent, I want us to focus on these words: a living HOPE! Oftentimes, our hope does not live. We say that we hope for something, but it takes too long to realize that something. When this happens, our hope dies. I mean we still have hope but are we believing in a living hope?
I believe that the Lenten season gives us an opportunity for new birth into a living hope! It is a spiritual reset for us. Life has not been the easiest since the previous Lenten season, so let us choose better. Let us choose to still believe in the hope that we profess. Let us choose to still believe in the waymaking God that we pray to. Let us choose to still believe that God is not done with our marriage, family, children, community, and world. Our God still cares and issues an invitation (because of His great mercy) to believe again.
HOPE is, simply put, "expectation". What expectations do you have for your life? What expectations are you depending on God alone to bring to pass?
CHALLENGE:
Make a list of "hope" that has died and commit yourself to choose for it to "live again". Daily ask God to give you the strength to walk "into a living hope" that God has gifted us already because of God's great mercy! | 
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