New Birth Into A Living Hope
The bible says of God, “In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope” (1 Peter 1:3). The analogy of birth is significant. When a person is born, they move out of one world and into another. They move out of the confined space and darkness of the womb and into the vastness of the world that we see around us, at which point all sorts of possibilities open up. Our Christian hope is similar…