Love Your Enemies

1 Pet. 2:18-20
"Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh. 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."

This passage led us into a discussion highlighting the difference between accepting individual injustice and when nations are justified to rebel against unjust authority. Making the distinction seemed to clear up the muddle. Of course, this was not at B. discussion, but a day when J. was contributing.

Dad pointed out that perhaps we should not apply this to the employer/employee relationship in America, because we have job mobility and can just leave a bad situation. It is much more pertinent when a person is bound somehow to an unjust master or boss. And how Christ wants us to handle that situation.

Some justice must be reserved for eternity and it is better left in God's hands.

This will be a "dry" week with Dad gone. Sorry.