Good Deeds

Verse of the Day: 

1 Peter 2:12

¹²Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

Being a believer matters. In simple things we do every day. It matters in how we conduct ourselves at home, school, and everywhere else we go. It matters how we treat the kid who sits alone at lunch. It matters to how we treat the crabby cashier at Target. It matters how we treat our parents when they ask us to do a chore. It matters to how  we drive on the roads. This verse reminds us that people who may NOT believe are watching us.

Even the people who do not believe (pagans) notice our good deeds. I mean, who doesn’t appreciate a good driver? Who doesn’t mind someone sitting with them at lunch when they have been sitting alone all week? Who has a problem with a nice comment when they have been working at the same cashier for the past 8 hours?

I looked up the meaning of the last part of the verse, the part that says “and glorify God on the day he visits us”. Apparently it has many meanings, but the one that most Christians believe is that it refers to the day that God brings salvation to a person’s life. So in short, God uses your good deeds to get the attention of non believers so that THEY may also have eternal life. If you think of it that way, it’s pretty mind blowing, isn’t it? J Good deeds go a LONG way.

The Simple Truth:  Our good deeds matter.

Pray:

Jesus, remind us that our actions and words really do matter. Use this truth to motivate us to do good deeds and bring people to You. Amen!

Let your light shine.

-Lo