LIVING THE GOOD LIFE (12 OF 20)
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:8-12
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Living the Good Life (12 of 20)
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 3:8-12
It is so easy to become distracted and lose focus. Sometimes I get so focused on what I have to do, later, that I can't concentrate on what I have to do now. I get so focused on what I need to the next hour or next day that I forget to do what I am supposed to do at this very moment. Anybody else have that problem?
I met with a longtime pastor friend of mine last week for lunch. He had been on my heart and mind for a while. I knew he had been discouraged, something we all experience, and pastors experience it more than people realize. I really didn't have a lot of time. It was Easter week and I had a lot of things I wanted to do and needed to do. There were errands I needed to run while I was in town. We talked and I listened and tried to encourage him and lunch went much longer than I anticipated and about the time I was getting ready to leave someone we both knew walked into the restaurant and my pastor friend said, ''Here's another hour of talking.'' At that, I decided to make a hasty retreat and in my haste I walked out and forgot to pay the bill. I ran my errands. Drove back to Lake Park, pulled into the driveway and it hit me. I had run out on the bill. I had to turn around and drive back to Valdosta to try and pay the bill.
Life moves at such speed and hits us with such force there are times all we can think about, all we want, is to make a hasty retreat. That's what the group of believers to whom Peter was writing desired. They wanted to beat a hasty retreat because of the struggles they were facing.
All they were focused on was getting through the pummeling they were experiencing because of their faith.
It had become extremely difficult to live out their faith in the public arena. More than difficult it had become dangerous and costly. Peter knew, because he saw it coming, that it was also going to become deadly. The hurricane of persecution was gaining strengt ...
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 3:8-12
It is so easy to become distracted and lose focus. Sometimes I get so focused on what I have to do, later, that I can't concentrate on what I have to do now. I get so focused on what I need to the next hour or next day that I forget to do what I am supposed to do at this very moment. Anybody else have that problem?
I met with a longtime pastor friend of mine last week for lunch. He had been on my heart and mind for a while. I knew he had been discouraged, something we all experience, and pastors experience it more than people realize. I really didn't have a lot of time. It was Easter week and I had a lot of things I wanted to do and needed to do. There were errands I needed to run while I was in town. We talked and I listened and tried to encourage him and lunch went much longer than I anticipated and about the time I was getting ready to leave someone we both knew walked into the restaurant and my pastor friend said, ''Here's another hour of talking.'' At that, I decided to make a hasty retreat and in my haste I walked out and forgot to pay the bill. I ran my errands. Drove back to Lake Park, pulled into the driveway and it hit me. I had run out on the bill. I had to turn around and drive back to Valdosta to try and pay the bill.
Life moves at such speed and hits us with such force there are times all we can think about, all we want, is to make a hasty retreat. That's what the group of believers to whom Peter was writing desired. They wanted to beat a hasty retreat because of the struggles they were facing.
All they were focused on was getting through the pummeling they were experiencing because of their faith.
It had become extremely difficult to live out their faith in the public arena. More than difficult it had become dangerous and costly. Peter knew, because he saw it coming, that it was also going to become deadly. The hurricane of persecution was gaining strengt ...
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