“For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do – living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry” (1 Peter 4:3).
Look at the world. What are they doing? They are reacting to things they are told. Up, down, all around, it is crazy. Yet people go on and on thinking that this is okay. Why do you participate in these things? Why do you act as thought this is okay? Look to the Lord and seek what is right while it can be found. Know that in the Lord there is goodness and mercy. Do not do the detestable things.
Lord, You know where I am tempted and give in to that temptation. Guide me dear Lord to move beyond these things so that I would focus upon what is right and good. Help me, I pray, to know that in You is all hope and goodness. The world shall fail, but You are forever. The way of the world leads to destruction. Guide me Lord in the way of life so that I may be uplifted with You.
Dear Jesus, You walked through this world seeing the sins and faults of those around You. You loved us enough to go to the cross in spite of this behavior. Help me die to these things in order that I may rise each day to do what is right and good. Lead me Lord in the way of everlasting life. Guide me to not condemn others, for the law already does that, but to love them as You love me. Amen.
