1Peter 2:13: Make the Master proud of you by being good citizens. Respect the authorities, whatever their level; they are God's emissaries for keeping order. It is God's will that by doing good, you might cure the ignorance of the fools who think you're a danger to society. Exercise your freedom by serving God, not by breaking the rules. Treat everyone you meet with dignity. Love your spiritual family. Revere God. Respect the government.
So it's FRIDAY!!!!!!!YAAAAAAAY this is the day many of you have been waiting for and it's at the end of what may have been a long, or challenging week, and it's so easy to now slip into auto pilot and coast the day away until we clock out of our jobs then the "fun begins"? Really? I do mean REALLY? Today's scripture says Let's make the Master proud...and slipping into autopilot is not the way. NO, we have to be intentional just so that we won't slip into autopilot. It's layed out in this scripture HOW we can make GOD proud! So let me go over them BE A GOOD CITZEN by: 1 Respecting the people in authority; the PRESIDENT ( I don't care what country you live in - uh I got friends in Africa....so their too) so this would mean...don't post crap about "he/she sucks, or patronizing their decisions, or you'd wish they'd die or can't wait for them to leave office....get the point!), Your Bosses and even YOUR PARENTS they ARE GOD SELECTED they didn't accidently end up in authority over you! Tell me where Christ slammed Caesar, GOD his Father or even Mary & Joseph....you can't.
2) God's glory comes from you doing good! HELLO....not you expressing your feelings on FB, BLOGS, or telling folks off in a "nice nasty" way. He did say......YOUR GOOD MIGHT CURE IGNORANCE of those who think your Christian beliefs are a threat....(ref. Gal. 5:23)
3) Excercise your freedom by (protesting, sending hate mail, posting negativity......NOT) SERVING GOD. Focus on how does your actions and words serve GOD in promoting the advancement of His Kingdom....if they don't align with His Will, then you're trying to build your own Kingdom.
4)Treat everyone you meet with dignity (respect) Just because they support this party, or live there, or like cats/dogs or eat meat, or talk like. (In the movie "Hotel Ruwanda" the tribes were killing and promoting hatred between each other based on the sizes of their noses.....THIS IS A TRUE STORY of our ignorance toward humanity....) .........I mean for real people....He meant it when He said...LOVE PEOPLE! I don't care if you like them........LOVE PEOPLE! TODAY.
5)Love your spiritual family! Uh....church hopping is for RABBITS...Trix are for.....you know what I'm saying. So what they won't sing your song....ITS GOD's CHURCH. Ok so they didn't talk to you again.......WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO GLORIFY HIM in the situation. They let him preach again......AND UNTIL GOD FEELS DIFFERENTLY HE'LL PREACH THIS SUNDAY TOO! Stop complaining about the people GOD has placed in what supposed to be a loving community, but one of the problems is you're not committed to loving them, like HE LOVES YOU!
6) Revere GOD........if you have profound respect and hold AWE for GOD....1-5 is a breeze for you!
7) HE HAD TO MENTION AGAIN RESPECT THE GOV'T apparently because HE knew we'd be disrepectful.
The picture above is of a recreational/cafeteria that was being built 2 years ago at African Bible College in Malawi, Africa. If you really look hard.....you'll see a guy on the roof taking a rest from what looks like A LOT OF WORK. But the amount of work didn't overwhelm him to the point of quitting. I will tell you when we arrived there was no roof, but by the time we left 8 days later there was a full roof....because he didn't quit, and others joined him. I said that to say.....don't quit doing GOOD PEOPLE! I know 1-7 might be hard or a lot of work, but I guarantee I will be one of the ones helping, and so will a few others that hearts are bent towards LOVING GOD and LOVING PEOPLE! Have a great FRIDAY and WEEKEND!
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