For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. --1 Peter 2:15
What we say matters. What we do matters even more.
How can a mind be changed? How can a heart be won? How can a culture be healed?
Right words are important. Right ideas expressing truth, spoken with right attitudes, are vital. But without right action, words fail.
Doing good pleases God. Doing good builds our character. Doing good brings light into darkness. And a by-product: doing good silences ugliness.
There is enough ugliness in our world. There is too little good. Allow me to rephrase, there is overwhelming good. But there must be more doing good. That is you... that is me... today.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
-- Micah 6:8
God, you made me good in Christ, now help me to have the guts to do good.
For now...
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