[Manna - March 19]
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance; but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. 1 Peter 1:14,15
SOME Christians have the erroneous idea that God
does all the fashioning, and that His children are to
be merely passive in His hand; but Peter does not so
express it.
He exhorts us to fashion ourselves according
to the divine instructions.
There is work to
be done in us and about us, and those who are not up
and doing, but who passively sit and wait for the
Lord to work miracles in their behalf, are greatly
deceived and are giving the enemy great advantage
over them, which he will certainly use to bind them
hand and foot and cast them into outer darkness,
unless they bestir themselves to work out their own
salvation with fear and trembling. Z.'03-55 R3150:1