the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Romans 12:9-21
The subject in vv. 1-8 is our service before God; vv. 9-16 set out mainly our obligations towards our brethren, while from v. 17 to v. 21 it is a matter of our responsibility towards men in general. Each of these exhortations is something to meditate on, and to be applied in our daily life. For the authority of the Word certainly extends as much to our family life as to our work, to the week days as well as to the Lord’s day, to days of joy as much as to days of sadness (v. 15) . . . There is not a single circumstance in which we cannot and should not behave ourselves as Christians.
V. 11 encourages us to activity. However, the different facets of service set before us: well doing, hospitality (v. 13) . . . must all be summed up in the expression "serving the Lord" (and not our own reputation).
To be pleased with what is lowly, and with the humble ones (v. 16), to bear with patience injustice or outrage (vv. 17-20), are things contrary to our nature. But it is in this way that the life of Christ will be manifested in us as it was manifested in Him (1 Peter 2:22-23). To do good is the only way to answer evil which we are allowed, and it is also the only way to overcome it.
