I Peter 2:15

     For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

     On rare occurrences, whole nations and societies have turned to saving faith in Christ, but much more commonly when we are born we enter a society dominated by unbelievers.   When we come to saving faith in Christ our soul rejoices that He has called us out of that darkness into His glorious light, but because our salvation sets us apart from the lost world around us, it is very common for the unholy majority to rise up against new believers with a litany of complaints.  Society chastises Christians for abandoning the religion of their ancestors, for not indulging in the old sins that used to bind them together, for discontinuing old traditions, and so forth.  These complaints come from “the ignorance of foolish men.”  In ignorance they see the radical change that overcomes a new believer in Christ and then assume that Christians must be bad because they are different.  We, as children of God combat this ignorance and complaint by “doing good.”  This is the will of God for us – not to win people’s affections by arguing with them, or by using force to turn them to our way of thinking, but by the simple means of “doing good.”  Ignorant people will complain against our devotion to Christ, let us not be shocked, offended, or discouraged by this.  Instead, let us heed the admonition in this verse and seek to change people’s negative feelings toward us by agreeing to “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on his faithfulness (Psalm 37:3).”