What does your life depend on? Great medical care? A healthy bank account? Wonderful family and friends who like you and approve of you? I’m asking myself this question as I read the end of chapter one in 1 Peter. Where is my eternal focus? Is the Word of God alive and living in me? Have I stepped up my love for others…as if my life depended on it?

“Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God’s living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That’s why the prophet said, ‘The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers droop, God’s Word goes on and on forever.'” 1 Peter 1, Msg

“This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.” 1 Pet 1, Msg

GOD’S WORD IS TRUTH LIVING IN US…
Every day, true believers must obey the truth. This will make their life pure. Psalm 119:9 says, ‘How can a young man live a pure life? When he lives the way that God’s word tells us’. The Bible is God’s word. The Bible is truth.

GOD’S WORD IN US STEPS UP OUR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER!
As Believers become purer in their lives, they will have a deeper love for each other. They will not have evil thoughts and feelings about others. Sincere love means we really care about other people with no pretense. AND we are all in the same family…God’s family!
God is our Father! AND this love of God, from God always gives more than it takes.

GOD’S WORD, THE GOOD NEWS IN US, LIVES FOREVER!
The ‘word of the *Lord’ (God) can refer to the Bible. It also means the good news that God saves people from *sin through Jesus Christ. When people hear or read this good news, it is like a seed that God plants in their lives. Seeds grow into plants. However, plants die. But the seed of God’s word will never die. It gives a person new birth into God’s family. All people, even great people, will die. Their physical body will die, just as grass and flowers die. But God’s words will live for ever. When people accept the word of the *Lord, their spirit will live for ever.

YES, I believe! My life depends on the Word of God in me! 

Dear Heavenly Father, We are encouraged and challenged by Your Word, Your Good News of the gospel, alive in all who believe. Thank you for Your Story of salvation, Your Word that breathes new life in us, from You. Wow, again, I am overwhelmed at the love You have for us! Let me just meditate on that and then help me extend Your kind of love to others. In Jesus Name, Amen