22 You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart.
23 For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. 24 As the Scriptures say,
“People are like grass;
Their beauty is like a flower in the field.
The grass withers and the flower fades.
25 But the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.
We don’t know our beginnings without Genesis, and we can’t understand the future without the book of Revelation. We learn how to worship in Psalms and how to live honestly in a dishonest world in Proverbs. Job shows us how God will bear us through suffering, and Ephesians helps us calculate our current and future blessings. Ruth shows us how to fall in love, Song of Solomon tells us how to love our spouse, and 1 John teaches us that we shouldn’t love the world or the things in it. Esther tells us God rules over the world even when He seems absent.
In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we meet the greatest Person in history, and we learn He is living still and loving us despite our mistakes and missteps. Jonah reminds us we shouldn’t run away from Him, and James tells us to draw near to Him. As we become better acquainted with our Bibles, we seem to find Jesus loving us afresh on every page. Today, think of one way the Bible has made a difference in your life.
(From “Today’s Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah”, 05.26.25)
In January, several of you began to utilize our annual Bible Reading Guide. If you have kept up with the plan, you are close to halfway through the plan you selected. It may be reading through the whole Bible or possibly reading through either the Old or New Testaments. The Bible has a lot to say about how your life can be transformed and blessed by reading God’s Word. We hope you have been blessed through the Holy Spirit as you spend time in His Word each day.
