As long as our minds are distracted and impaired, we won’t be able to set our minds fully (but only partially) on the living hope of salvation that is ours. We will be too concerned about all of the other short term and incomplete offerings of hope that ultimately leave us insecure and unfulfilled.

What we need is a hope that is always in front of us. A hope of something so good, so beautiful, so imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, that it is enough to sustain us through the whiplash of pendulum swings between hopes realized and hopes dashed.

We must have the mindset of learning obedience to Christ, who calls us to experience and extend the grace and peace that come to us through the life-changing love of Jesus Christ.

Because we are elect exiles, we can live in our current cultural moment and every other moment as people who are valued, loved, and forgiven.