1 Peter 3:13-18(The Message) If with heart and soul you're doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you're still better off. Don't give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you're living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They'll end up realizing that they're the ones who need a bath. It's better to suffer for doing good, if that's what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That's what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others' sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.
If God has laid something on your heart to do, then go after it. Do not worry about failure, it maybe the faithfulness that God wants from you. True failure is to not try. When God places something in your heart, then He will supply the provisions and protection to accomplish it. The only requirements are being led of God and following His plan of action in love. You have got to only go where God leads. Go out now and get busy doing the things that has been placed on your heart.
Love and God Bless,
Cindy Irwin
