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Reading:

1 Peter 1:13-25

To be nonconformed, be conformed.

Can you explain that statement?

Maybe this will help:

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance” (1 Peter 1:14).

Now get personal with five more questions to chew:

  1. After what or whom do I model my life?
  2. Have I excused or ignored any unholiness in me recently?
  3. How practical and liveable is my hope?
  4. Am I taking an active, purposeful role in the purifying of my soul?
  5. Just how eternal is my day-to-day value system?

Over six years ago I wrote The Christian’s Lively Hope (based in part on 1 Peter 1:13-21).

[The Scriptures say in 1 Peter 1:24 -- All the glory of man]
from 1 Peter 1:24

Reading:

Proverbs 10:2-5

Why work? Well, here’s a good reason:

“He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame” (Proverbs 6:5).

Here’s a short list I put together over a decade ago (you know, in the previous millenium!):

  1. Work exercises body or mind.
  2. Work builds and fortifies character.
  3. Work enables service.
  4. Work makes people productive.

To see how I fleshed out that skeletal list, read the full lesson: The Christian and Work.

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 10:4 -- He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand]

from Proverbs 10:4

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