05/22/2020
The prayers of the righteous.... What does it mean when life has beaten you so, that you don't feel so righteous? How about when you don't even feel like you are worthy for God to even hear you? Have you been there? Have you ever felt like with all the good you try to do, the more you seem to suffer? I have!!! Well, I prayed for an answer and was led to 1 Peter 3:12-18. The Message Bible puts it this way: "13-18:If with heart and soul you're doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you're still better off. Don't give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you're living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They'll end up realizing that they're the ones who need a bath. It's better to suffer for doing good, if that's what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That's what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others' sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God."
What more can be said? -WTW
