Hope and Confidence Come from God
Trust God's Promises
1 Peter 1:22-2:3
The Message
22-25 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.
its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers;
Grass dries up, flowers droop,
God’s Word goes on and on forever.
This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.
2 1-3 So
clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and
hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the
breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature
and whole in God.
For Reflection
Each
decision to follow God is a moment of rebirth. It is a moment of
baptism, a moment of communion with the Holy Spirit. It is a moment of
life anew lived in the hollow of God's hand, a life eternal, a life of
stewardship in the Kingdom of God.
Pray
that you will follow the truth.
Pray that you will love one another. Pray so that your new life never
regresses into your old life. Live a God-centered life so that
humankind evolves into the Kingdom of God.
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