1 Peter 3:9 sure is a wake up call after reading 1 Peter 3:8. We can all imagine ourselves being compassionate, loving, humble and sympathetic (v.8) . But can you imagine yourself repaying evil with good? Like really, really horrendous evil? I personally can't. But in Peters letter to the Church, he is calling new Christians to live completely counter culturally. Even though these Christians were exiled from their homes and suffered under a government who openly and actively made their lives as difficult as possible.
Obedience to the kinds of things Peter is writing about is what Christians regard as following the Lord and not themselves. We are to act as Jesus acted. We are called to put aside our desire for vengeance and seek justice and forgiveness instead. We are not called to be yet another instrument of evil in this world. So we cling to the God of justice and compassion, through the small injustices of every day life and great tragedies that can befall us in this sinful and broken world. This week Pastor Mark walks us through verse 1 Peter 3: 8-12, please join us!
~KT
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