July 13, 2025

COMMENDABLE PATIENCE

1 Peter 2:19-20

For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.

Personal Challenge

We all desire and appreciate fairness. That is part of how we are wired. That also means we do not care for unfairness. If we get to the point in our lives where unfairness to another does not bother us then we must check what has happened to our conscience. If we desire to be commendable before God, then we must learn to endure grief and suffering in situations where we have been wronged, when we have done the right and good thing and suffer at the hands of another. If we are following the command of Jesus to love our neighbor, then we must be prepared to suffer wrongful responses, especially in the society that we live in today. It will be worth it though, so we must love our neighbor and protect them from the hostile environment of today. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!