Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart. You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord endures forever.”That word is the good news that was announced to you.
How can we keep on keeping on? Not only in profession of faith, but in actually living it out beginning in the community of faith. Only by “the living and enduring word of God.” In and through Scripture and however that word comes to us. Really, nothing else.
If we’re trying to do it on our own with all the best intentions, we won’t make it, at least not as far as God is concerned, even though I think God always appreciates and takes note of sincerely good intentions.
The word of the Lord that endures forever is our only hope in this life and in the life to come. God helps us grow and carry on well by that.
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