"Deer In The Headlight" Look

You know what I mean... it's that look we get when we get caught... So, how's the LOCK ON THE ROCK thing going? Is it "just" a youth thing - or are you taking the challenge to heart?  Through this summer, we will be focusing on the theme of LOCK ON THE ROCK. A topic came up in a class Andy Shaffer was teaching last week that intrigues me. We were talking about Acts 16 and the Philippian Jailer. After the Roman style beating (as distinguished from the Jewish limited style), and being locked in stocks, Paul and Silas were of all things singing and praying. So, how were Paul and Silas shining their lights as Christ asked in Matthew 5? They were praising God, even when unjustly treated.
So... how do you respond when you are unjustly treated? It happens - probably not to the level of being flogged and locked in stocks - but what is our reaction when we are done wrong - or when we perceive that we are done wrong? This gets down to some serious Rock climbing!  We are imperfect people - so we will wrong each other at times. People will treat us badly just in the course of normal life, to say nothing of when we are witnessing for Christ. Parents will do us wrong, people in government will do us wrong, people will at times forget to turn on their turn signal, for crying out loud... how do we react? Do we see this as an opportunity to "shine" our light - or do we have a complete meltdown at the thought?
When the earthquake occurred in Acts 16, Paul, Silas, and the rest of the prisoners just hung around till the the jailer could get things under control... I wonder why? Could it be that they shined their light so brightly in how they responded to being done wrong?
For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God.  But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
"He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth."  
When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed (1 Peter 2:19-24).