If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They’ll end up realizing that they’re the ones who need a bath. It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.
1 Peter 3:18 MSG
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
4 comments:
Rev Paul,
Amen!
I have been thinking a lot about this, Reverend. Without dragging current politics too much into the mix, I wonder if Christians (at least some) have become more concerned with seeming to be doing good rather than doing good and being thought of ill (or even worse to our human psyche, not thought of at all).
A very good passage. Thank you, Lord, for not giving up on me.
And thank you, Reverend.
TB, I think you're right, at least in large part. Christians in the U.S. have become part of the crowd, and spend WAY too much time trying to appease critics. Rather, we should be concerned with pleasing our Lord by obeying Him.
Linda, you're always welcome. :)
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