For we have
spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we
walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and
abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do
not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They
will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. –
1 Peter 4.3-5
Peter is telling us here
that it is time to stop playing games. It was time to stop the worldly walk and
their fleshly behaviour. He said before Christ we walked in wilderness and
lusts and drunkenness and wild parties and all kind of idolatry.
Now, we are, or should be
different. Because of the change in our lives people think it is weird that we
don’t do those things any more. Because we don’t do those things anymore, they
speak evil of us. Holiness always makes people a little uncomfortable.
The truth is that it is time
for us to give up that nonsense because we don’t have time for it. As the end
gets closer we are to be redeeming the time. We don’t know how much time we
have left. Jesus may come today. We not have time for all that carry on.
As we travel through this
world we need to stay on track. Like Christian in Pilgrim’s Progress we are
always going to be drawn by the temptations of Vanity Fair. We have spent far
too much time there already. It makes no difference what they think about us.
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