Run With It: Turn From Evil and Do Good

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Turn From Evil and Do Good

“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
He must turn away from evil and do good;
He must seek peace and pursue it.
For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
And His ears attend to their prayer,
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
(1 Peter 3:10-12 NASB1995)

You can’t fake it! Either it is real, or it isn’t. Love for God or love for spouse or love for others is not in words only. Saying, “I love you,” is not love if it is not followed up with action which demonstrates what love truly is. And it is not love if it is accompanied by deception, manipulation, conniving, and trickery to try to get other people to do what you want them to do to gratify the sinful cravings of your own flesh. So don’t say it if you don’t mean it. And don’t say it if you are faking it and you are not really living it, in truth.

The love that God desires is shown through our actions, not in words only. For to love God is to obey him and his commandments (New Covenant). And to love God and other humans must be based in what is morally pure, godly, upright, honest, and faithful to God and to spouse and to words spoken. For if lying, cheating, stealing, and/or committing adultery, etc., is what you do, in practice, don’t call it love. And don’t try to fake it. God knows, and your spouse may know, too, when you are faking it to cover for your evil deeds.

Don’t act like you love God if how you live and what you practice speaks the opposite of love. Don’t try to put on a performance to make others think you are godly and a genuine follower of Christ if you know that you are living in deliberate and habitual sin against God and/or against your spouse (if you are married) and that you are lying about it to cover up the truth. And don’t act like habitual and deliberate sin against God is the norm for everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ, as though God just overlooks habitual sin.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives. So we are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls Jesus “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one doing the will of God in heaven.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

The Battle for Truth

Based off Malachi 1-4

An Original Work / May 18, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love