1 Peter 4:17
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
We can continue to sit around and blame Obama. We can watch events unfold and say it's the protesters in Ferguson's fault. Or it's the cops fault who shoot people in the back. We can find plenty of blame to go around.
Or we can accept the truth of this scripture. Judgment begins with us. It begins with me. Am I shining the light of Christ in this dark world?
The next verse says this — 1 Peter 4:18
And “If the righteous is scarcely saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
People we are scarcely saved. I suggest that what this means is that our salvation hangs only by the grace of God. We have added nothing to it. We are only God's grace away from being eternally damned so we ought to be humble in our salvation knowing we aren't all that much different than those who are perishing. Thus we ought to be thinking more what we can do to change the world than be sitting around complaining about others. We need to be showing the way to the lost by how we live and the way we live needs to be radically different than how the world lives.
Finish this thought with 1 Peter 4:19 —
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
Let us do good. May we shine the light of Christ so that those who walk in darkness will see.
The next verse says this — 1 Peter 4:18
And “If the righteous is scarcely saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
People we are scarcely saved. I suggest that what this means is that our salvation hangs only by the grace of God. We have added nothing to it. We are only God's grace away from being eternally damned so we ought to be humble in our salvation knowing we aren't all that much different than those who are perishing. Thus we ought to be thinking more what we can do to change the world than be sitting around complaining about others. We need to be showing the way to the lost by how we live and the way we live needs to be radically different than how the world lives.
Finish this thought with 1 Peter 4:19 —
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
Let us do good. May we shine the light of Christ so that those who walk in darkness will see.
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