being glad - anchored in hope

1 Peter goes on to say "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials."

I don't think it's an accident that Peter tells us first to put our hope in the mercy granted us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, in the inheritance that is waiting for us that we cannot yet see & cannot be lost in verses 4 & 5. After he details where our hope should lie, then he tells us to rejoice in trials. I think Peter knew we could not find joy in trials without anchoring our hope first in the unfailing promise provided through Christ. If we put our hope in "stuff" or other people or position or dreams or expectations for our life, then when a trial threatens that thing, it threatens our hope, and there is likely no rejoicing. But if our hope is in Christ - nothing can take Christ, nothing can take our inheritance. Nothing. Whatever trial we face, our hope remains unchanged because Christ remains. Grieve? yes. Weep? surely. But lose hope? impossible if it is anchored in Christ.