All Our Hope
- Brooke Singleton
- Oct 18, 2024
- 3 min read
“It’s in Him alone that we can be sure we will be delivered safely home.”
“Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.” 1 Peter 1:13
All our hope is in Jesus. That’s not just “christianeze”, momma, or a saying fit for a t-shirt. It is the very foundation of our lives.
ALL our hope is in Jesus.
Outside of Jesus, we are not able to parent well, to love genuinely, to leave a legacy, or even to love God. All power and wisdom, and even our will to obey, is a good gift from God. Although the enemy attacks us in varied ways, most of his work in done in the landscape of our own minds. Our thoughts can be bound up in untruth without us even knowing it, and our thoughts affect every aspect of our lives. Perhaps, never more so than believing lies about God's character, His love for us and His grace toward us.
Nowhere in my own life have those truths been more tested than when I look at my own parenting. If our minds are left unguarded, it’s easy to get stuck in a revolving door of guilt, blame and disappointment over our actions, our words and our lacking. This verse in 1 Peter reminds us that God is ever practical and if we are going to continue this walk with Jesus and lead our kids in the same, we have to keep our minds fully sober and alert to the enemies’ schemes, the untruths he whispers, the ones he screams, and set our hope COMPLETELY on Jesus’ grace to come. We will not get to the end of this race on our own merit, sisters. We will not train arrows and release them successfully on any foundation or thought other than the hope of Jesus and His grace.
So, let’s train our minds like a muscle and strengthen it with the word of God, with scriptural discussions, with praise and worship. May we remind ourselves daily, even as we do our kids, that all our hope is in Jesus and His return, not books or ideologies or psychology. Not immaculate houses, play dates or our own designs. It’s in Him alone that we can be sure we will be delivered safely home. May we be purposeful to remember that truth, and may it hold our minds fast.
Action steps:
Take some time over the next week, even if it’s laying in bed at night, and ask the Lord, like David did, to search your heart, for any thought, ideology or action that isn’t rooted in the hope of Jesus’ death and resurrection alone.
Get in the habit of reminding your mind and thoughts, before your feet even hit the ground in the morning, that your whole life rests on the hope of the saving grace of Jesus; not your successes or your failures. That’s putting on the helmet of salvation, and will help steady you for the day ahead.
Take a listen to “In Christ Alone”- Kristian Stanfill
Written by Brooke, momma of 3, with all hope in Jesus