1 Peter 1.18 says: For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed form the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefather, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
If you are like me you struggle with putting faith and hope in "perishable things." Such things are so tangible - and we humans like the tangible. We like to see, hold, and the whole rest of our senses, those things that we believe in. Such things are called empirical evidenses. God calls us to be people of faith - those things in which we cannot sense solely with observation or experiment. Do we "trust" in God? Do we "trust" in the precious blood of His Son for the forgiveness of sin?
Read the verses again...dwell on them...and allow God to speak to your heart.
