Showing God's Love

Read 1 Peter 1:22-25

Context: continuation from yesterday, where Peter talked about us being strangers to this world and how Jesus was chosen to be a sacrifice for us before the creation of the world.

Text:
22Now 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.[a] 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For,
"All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25but the word of the Lord stands forever."[b] And this is the word that was preached to you. (NIV)
Footnotes:

1 Peter 1:22 Some early manuscripts from a pure heart
1 Peter 1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8
taken from www.biblegateway.com

Do you ever show your love for others by sharing God's word? Not in a way that shows you have great knowledge of the scriptures, but by helping them find a passage that might address their needs at the moment.

When we first became Christians, a loving friend gave us a book that divided some key scriptures into categories. If we were trying to understand God's perspective on money, for example, we went to that category to find passages about that topic. This was very helpful because we could get answers to questions that we might have been afraid to ask those who seemed to have it all together in Christ.

Very few of us will be remembered three generations from now, but if we point others to the word of God, it's power will be felt for many generations!

So, have you read 1 Peter 1 each day? A quick pop-quiz:

1. To whom did Peter write?

2. What was his key message?

3. Why do we suffer grief?

4. How are we to live?

5. Recite your memory verse...

Give yourself a big star -- red if you at least read all of the daily devotions for the week, blue if you read 1 Peter 1 more than three times, and gold if you got all the questions correct!