Jesus knows who the actors are...

Jesus therefore made repeated and unmistakable distinctions between our face to the world and our person before God.(quote from DW)

"Jesus does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.” (quote from DW)

The Puritans in American history lived as if they stood before an audience of ONE. They carried on their lives as if the only one whose opinion mattered, were God's. (quote from OG)

("the audience of ONE") to fully comprehend that this extends to every aspect of our life, to all that we do...

Thank you mj

These are a blessing this morning.

The effect of both action and nonaction for human approval is to push the presence of God aside as irrelevant and to subject ourselves to the human kingdom. In both avoiding evil and doing good, our respect should be for God alone. We may think it is okay to avoid evil for fear of being seen, for in any case we do avoid the evil. But that only shows we have no respect for God and would disobey him but for the opinions of others. The basic principle is the same in both cases.(quote from DW)