"Living As Servants of God"

“Living As Servants of God”

 

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.   Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.         1 Peter 2:15-16

 

We live in a very SINFUL, WICKED, DEPRAVED world, and for the TRUE BELIEVER it is very DIFFICULT to live the way God wants and expects us to live.  We face all kinds of adversities, trials, and temptations, but it is the will of God for us to live, doing good works, which would stop foolish people from showing their ignorance by saying stupid things about us. 

 

We are expected to live by being OBEDIENT to the laws of the land, in other words we are to obey the laws that are given to us, to live by. Unless, of course, they are contradictory to the laws of God.  We are to yield to the highest authority in this land.  We are to be LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS, which seems to be the minority in this day and time.  However, by doing this, we are obeying the will of God, and shutting the mouths of ignorant, foolish people, who love more than anything to PERSECUTE and DEMEAN the Christians.

 

The Apostle Peter tells us that we should live as people who are FREE, FREE from the penalty of SIN, but we are NOT to use our FREEDOM as a cover-up for participating in sin, instead we are to LIVE as SERVANTS of GOD.  That means we are to follow the example that Jesus has set before us, and strive to live according to the WILL of God, by living as a SERVANT of God.  One who seeks, with ALL their HEART to live doing the GOOD THINGS God want us to do.  SERVING Him and HONORING Him. 

 

We will fail every now and then, but it is up to us to make it right with God, by SEEKING His FORGIVENESS and continuing to LIVE as His SERVANT.  If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God then you are LIVING in SIN and are destined for an ETERNITY in Hell.  You MUST come to God with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, CONFESSING, your sins to Him, and TURN AWAY FROM your sins, BELIEVING, with ALL your HEART that Jesus died for YOU, and is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God, then ACCEPT His gift of SALVATION, and start LIVING AS GOD’S SERVANT, by doing good things, and being OBEDIENT to the WILL of God.  Do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s waiting and coming SOON!!!