Hello – I apologize for the delay the past couple of weeks
and getting this out in the evening. I will strive for improvement moving
forward!
1 Peter 2:11-12 “Beloved, I
urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which
wage war against the soul. Keep your behavior excellent among the
Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers,
they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify
God in the day of visitation.” (NASB)
As I was reading this part of the chapter I was thinking
about how many times we hear about people being “in the wrong place at the
wrong time”. We love to push the boundary. We like to go as far as we can
justify to ourselves, and then just make sure not to cross that last piece of
the line. But the reality is that when we push as far as we can to the line, we
have little defense when things go down. Peter urges us here to stay back –
draw our line further so that whatever things we are accused of are clearly not
true. The rest of chapter 2 Peter talks about submitting to authority in this
same vein, and the illustration of Christ and His lived out example. Peter
mentions in verse 23 that Christ didn’t get caught up in retaliation – but just
kept doing what He needed to do. Not only did He not retaliate, but He didn’t
threaten it either – He kept His boundary line back from “crossing” to where it
was clearly not an improper response.
I encourage all of us to look in our lives at where our
actions/words/choices have proven out boundary lines to be.
Have a blessed day,
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