hanging out Today is Thursday and if you’re Spring Breaking this week that mean’s there’s not much time left for your vacation. Maybe you’re one of the clever ones who figures “everyone is going to be partying hard on Friday…I’ll have my last big night of fun on Thursday!” By all means, go ahead! Enjoy yourself!

But don’t forget that you’re not taking a vacation from God.

But you already know that. That’s why your fun will be clean and healthy, Christian and holy. You will enjoy yourself the ways God’s children are allowed. And when you return home, your friends and work or at school will be sure to ask how your vacation was. They will want to know all the things you did while away.

And you’ll tell them how you didn’t get drunk, didn’t go clubbing, didn’t curse like a sailor, didn’t dress immodestly, and didn’t get into a fist fight with a guy wearing a Mickey Mouse costume.

And they’ll think you are strange.

Well so what!?

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

1 Peter 4:3-4

They will look at you as an odd one for not “enjoying yourself” they way they do. So what?

So you don’t walk in “lasciviousness” (meaning “to go looking for a man or a woman in a sinful kind of way”). So what?

So you don’t walk in “lusts” (meaning “to desire something you ought not have”). So what?

So you don’t walk in “excess of wine” (meaning “to knock a few back” and all the other sins that follow). So what?

So you don’t walk in “revellings” (meaning “lewd and loud drunken parties). So what?

So you don’t walk in “banquetings” (meaning “drinking games” like the kind you’d see in a western saloon). So what?

So you don’t walk in “abominable idolatries” (meaning “things which disrespect the holiness of God and that are loved more than God). So what?

 

They will think you are strange. They will refuse to “run with you” because of it. But so what? They will not understand you (1 John 3:1). But so what? Don’t let them control your life.

Your life doesn’t belong to them; it belongs to God (Colossians 3:1-3).

Have a great day!