Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking up with day two of our devotion on the Bible title Hope and

Holiness in a secular age. There's a link to that in the description if you

want to follow long and as always I'm going to read the description I'm also going to

pick with the devo and just as a heads up I feel like I just have a tickle in

back my throat so if you hear me keep clear in my throat like that.

I do apologize. I don't know what's going on, but we're going to power through.

Anyways, the scripture is 1st Peter, chapter 1, verse 13. It says this.

So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control.

Put all your hope and the gracious salvation that will come to you

when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. The devotional says this.

Hope is a powerful force. It can give us the strength that persevere through seemingly impossible circumstances.

But, where we place our hope matters immensely,

the secular world offers many options for hope. Political power, wealth, comfort, pleasure, or personal

achievement. But these are ultimately unstable foundations for hope.

The biblical vision calls us to quote

set your hope fully on the grace to be given you

when Jesus Christ is revealed. This isn't wishful thinking or blind optimism.

Christian hope is a solid expectation based on the promises of God. It's a confident assurance that God will make all

things new. This hope should be our anchor, unchanging and unshakable, even

when everything else seems so uncertain.

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