“Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’” (1 Peter 1:13b-16)
Though we may seem to be doing nothing worthwhile in this world, we can be doing everything worthwhile if our lives are being styled by God’s grace. Set aside through sickness or seclusion, we can still be immensely prolific. Bed-ridden or house-bound, our holiness by itself can yet bear fruit. We don’t have to be good for anything to be useful; just good.
Good people do more good than they ever know. Lighthouse keepers never know how many ships they have turned away from the rocks. Their duty is to shine, not look for results.
-- David Roper in “A Beacon in the Darkness: Reflecting God’s Light in Today’s World”
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