Doing The Right Thing

Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3:1-7

Sometimes the right thing is not what we want to do.  Maybe it is because it is not convenient or maybe it is because we are lazy or maybe it is because it will benefit someone we don’t particularly like.  It does not matter why we don’t want to do the right thing, what matters is that in spite of our personal feelings that we do the right thing.

We were not very likable, and yet, Jesus saved us, regenerated us, and renewed us.  This being said, is it too much to expect that we show consideration for all men and women by doing the right thing?