DECENT AND TRUE

Today's reading: Romans 13-14

"We should be decent and true in everything we do, so that everyone can approve of our behavior. Don't participate in wild parties and getting drunk, or in adultery and immoral living, or in fighting and jealousy." Romans 13:13 NLT

Decent and true in every we do...one might think that's too high a calling to take on, but let's break it down, choice by choice...

-Our Bible before our Facebook time?

-Prayer instead of the morning news?

-Obeying the speed limit, no matter what?

-Paying the taxes we have due?

-Exiting ourselves from conversations in which gossip is the topic?

-Setting aside Sunday as the Lord's Day?

-Forgiving the other person? No string attached. No 'fishing in that pond' any longer. Whether they know it or not.

-Remembering it's not all about you?

-Letting go of bitterness?

-Pausing to listen--really listen?

-Doing, one thing at a time, what we know we have said we would do?

All at once, being decent and true might be a little overwhelming, but when we decide to do it choice by choice, moment by moment, day by day...well, I believe that makes it more doable for us all!