Today's Daily Lesson comes from 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 1 through 3:
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— 3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
The Lord is good; and the people of the Lord are supposed to be good also.
We are supposed to be holy and righteous and decent in all our dealings with everyone. This is what Peter elsewhere in this same chapter calls our "spiritual sacrifice". It is simple kindness and humanity.
How so many so-called Christians came to accept malice and cruelty is a travesty. How deceit and slander became okay, and even cheered is a shame.
This is Christianity 101, and the whole class has flunked.
God is good -- all the time. Goodness is a fruit of God's Spirit. Let us ask and strive for it in ourselves; and let us expect it in others -- especially if they profess to call themselves Christians.
We will know them by their fruit.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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