We moved the coop but Jesus has changed who we are and moved our entire eternal destination! That should show up in our everyday lives. 1 Peter 2:11-12 says, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”
This world is not our home, we’re just passing through as the song says. So let’s “abstain” by saying no to wrong desires and yes to God.
Let’s be excited about our new accent. Honest conversation refers to our lifestyle, not just the way we talk, and hopefully we live differently and talk differently—maybe using some different words, talking about different things, etc—now that we’re Christians.
When we look at the wrong things people do—and the wrong desires in our own hearts—let’s remember that people are always watching us, forming their opinion of Jesus by what they see in us.
When it comes to the sinful world all around us, we don’t belong there anymore. Let’s not act like we do.
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