Thursday the 22nd

1Peter 3:13-14

 

¹³Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? ¹⁴But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.”

 

I love how Peter points out the obvious fact that I so often over look……who is going to harm you if you are working for the good? So often we are hesitant to do the right thing when it counts. We are afraid of how it will be taken, or that if we expose to much of ourselves, even in an attempt to do good, we will somehow tip our hand to the world, and we will be persecuted. SO we blend in, we let ourselves become camouflaged with the rest of the world, so that we don’t stand out. The fear we feel is a false fear, I often think of it as the devil himself whispering in your ear to just sit back and let it happen…..nothing you can really do….you can’t make a difference…..The truth of the matter is who cares what the world thinks? So what if you are persecuted for doing the right thing, you have nothing to fear. Why you might ask, because the Lord is with us, I often think of the LORD reassuring Joshua before he crossed the Jordan, the Lord reminds Joshua be strong and courageous, do not be afraid, do not be frightened, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. We all have our rivers to cross in life, we all have a chance to do the right thing everyday, while that little voice might whisper in our ear to just let things happen, we know differently, we know that we are blessed, we know that the Lord is with us, and that being the case what weapons formed against us have a chance? We do not need to fear what the world fears, We have a family in the Holy Trinity that will always protect us.  We will not come to harm for doing good, we become spiritually injured when we do not!

 

In the name of the Lord,

Brian