Honourable conduct

 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2.11-12

 

As we are sojourners and pilgrims in this world there are things that we ought to do to honour our true home. If we get too much like the world we no longer can make a difference. We must abstain from the lusts of the flesh that the world r8shes after.

 

Then there is a wonderful general description of how we live. We ought to always have a conduct which is honourable.

 

Too often we Christians have been an embarrassment to the cause. Hypocrisy, arrogance, haughtiness, false piety, judgmental spirits, worldliness, a lack of real love, materialism, and pragmatism have given people ‘cause to blasphemy.’ Everyone is to blame for their failure to come to Christ, but Christians in many cases must accept part of the blame. These make it hard for people to reconcile our words and our actions.

 

Honourable lives mean that we are the best friends and neighbours and parents and  citizens and workers and club members and whatever else we are. If we remember that we are to do all of these things out of love for God and love for each other and motivated by God’s love and for His glory our lives will be honourable lives.

 

Living for Jesus is not always about the big things. Most of the time it is the little day to day things that matter. Lets make sure that our lives honour God in all that we do.