when I lose hope

I need to read 1 Peter 1 when I've forgotten why i've sacrificed so much for the Christian walk.

There are those days you wonder if God is a figment of ur imagination. You speak out truths in ur life...but it's what I've grown up with. I've been wired since the first day I was born to think this way. I've learned to surrender myself to something that seems physically intangible and even mentally in some ways (since God is so infinite). Sometimes I feel like I'm aiming for something in vain. But that's because I wasn't made for earth..but for heaven. I'm an alien...traveling to the Promise Land.

"Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

So what should I do?

"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. ¹⁵But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; ¹⁶for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."'

and furthermore....

"Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.^{b]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[b]} ²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God."

Learning to be holy...and loving God and others. What i've been constantly told recently. :)