“Having
purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly
love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born
again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and
abiding 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 remains forever.’ And this word is the good news that was preached to you.”
(1 Peter 1:22-25 ESV).
There
is nothing wrong with speaking of the “Gospel” as “Good News” in reference to
our being saved from our sins. It is good
news for us as sinners … that we, who have no hope, now have a saving living
hope in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Still
there is more to our faith than just our salvation. We are born again when
Christ has our heart and life. In our
seeking of God we find everything about Him and all that He gives is lasting,
eternal, fulfilling and substantial. His
promises and His Word becomes alive in us because He is life (1 John 5:11-12).
Eternal life does not come to us only after our death, it also comes to us now
as we live in all that our Father gives to us and as we follow His ways and
commandments. Nothing about our Lord
fades away or perishes over time. He
abides forever and never abandons us.
Everything about Him and everything He gives is from everlasting to
everlasting. That is amazing reality we
often forget in the allurement of the fading and temporary. Everything else in this world fades away but everything
about Him and all that He gives lasts forever. That is "Good News" in the world we live in.
“The
grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever."
(Isaiah
40:8 NIV)
Suggested
Bible Reading … Isaiah 40 & 1 Peter 1
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