God’s blessings being poured out upon us

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you. 1 PETER 1:3,4

Throughout the Old Testament, God has a number of names. In the New Testament, He is most notably “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” He shares the same spiritual and eternal life, the same essential nature as Jesus Christ. He has begotten us again to a living hope as we put our trust in Jesus Christ. But everything that God has planned for those who belong to Him is not yet ours. And so we live in hope, a living hope of eternal life, because Christ rose from the dead. So we live by faith. We live today in the midst of God’s blessings being poured out upon us, but there is a glorious reality yet ahead of us. And then Peter adds that we have an inheritance that is incorruptible—not subject to termination, undefiled. It’s not subject to any defect or tampering or fading away. But, rather, it is reserved intact in all its fullness, all its purity, all its glory in heaven for us. And so we not only enjoy what the Lord has done for us now, but we have our hope fixed on the day when the inheritance becomes a reality when we enter heaven.