Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority or to governors as those sent out by him...

For it is God's will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good. Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God's slaves.

1 Peter 2:13-16 CSB

It's easy to get lost in the first part of this passage about submitting to in our case, the government. 

Peter bookends this with "because of the Lord" and "God's slaves". 

He pulls us up to the big picture, takes us back to Ch1 who Jesus is, what he did, and our position now first and foremost as living to honour God, as free people, living in the light.

And honouring God he calls us here to honour the government of the day, and, to live by doing good. 

Especially if I don't agree with some of what the government does. 

For centuries this has led Christians to save abandoned babies, tend to the sick and dying, feed the hungry, visit the prisoners, clothe those who need it, bring healing, love and light.

Let Peter's words nudge us today, move us today towards others, to do good.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; 

only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; 

only love can do that." 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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