Do you ever feel scattered in your life? Boy, I do. As a husband of a very outgoing and active wife, a father of five children who are involved in all sorts of good things, and a pastor of a church with several hundred people, my life often feels scattered. Sometimes I feel like I’m running in every direction. I’m sure you can feel the same way.

But in 1 Peter 1, Apostle Peter has a word that helps to settle us, compose us, steady us. He is writing to people who were literally scattered. These were believers spread all over the region we know today as Asia Minor and the nation of Turkey. It was primarily persecution that had dispersed them throughout the land. And with the following words, the apostle spoke hope into this scattered people, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope.”

Beloved, they had a living hope, and so do we. Not wishful thinking, but a confident expectation rooted in Christ’s resurrection. Because He lives, our hope breathes. Because He conquered death, our future shines with certainty.

But notice what secures this hope: not our grip on God, but His grip on us. He says we have “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.” Three negatives declaring one positive truth—nothing can corrupt what God has prepared for us.

And the security doubles as he continues to point out that our inheritance is kept in heaven while we are “guarded through faith by God’s power.” Heaven protects our future; God’s power protects us until we reach it.

This isn’t blind optimism—it’s blood-bought assurance. Your circumstances may be uncertain, but your destiny is sealed. Your present may be scattered, but your future is rock-solid.

Thank God today that in Jesus Christ, your hope isn’t fragile or fading. It’s alive, anchored in resurrection power, and absolutely secure.

Change begins in you!