Having a good life is largely about maintaining standards.
Personal care – whether we’ve washed our hair and put on clean clothes.
Community involvement – working to ensure our library and parks are maintained.
Neighborhood pride – keeping our yard and house maintained with a degree of care.
If we let these things slip, things soon slide into disrepair, disuse, and disgrace. It’s vital that each of us participates if we want our lives to be the best they can be.
God has pegged a standard by which we must live.
Read in 1 Peter 2:24:
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
Here’s the standard set by this verse: Jesus saw the most important thing on this planet as you and me. He felt we were worth dying for. He let nothing, not even his desire to avoid the cross, get in the way of maintaining his standard of selfless love for humanity.
Our half of this equation is what we must put into it, to die to sin and live to righteousness.
How can we do that? Jump into the Word of God, learn the example of Jesus, and live by his moral benchmark.
Jesus summed up what he expects from us in Matthew 7:12:
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
We’re on board, now, prepared to live a good life in Jesus.
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