Feb.8:DOING GOOD

“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway! What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.” This statement was from “Mother Teresa: A Simple Path” (Ballantine Books, 1995)
You simply have to do what you have to do as a believer. Do Good!
From Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV) we hear “whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” Just think about yourself, for example. How many good intentions have you had in the last month? How many noble plans have you made that came to nothing just because you wouldn’t do it?
So many people could be helped and many problems solved if each of us could implement every great idea that God has given us? Sometimes we talk ourselves out of it because we are lazy. Sometimes we miss the opportunity through procrastination.
Proverbs 6:6-9 (NIV) challenges us: “Go to the ant, you sluggard: consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, you sluggard?” It is an insult to be challenged to watch the ants and learn a lesson about resourcefulness, but if that will wake us up, so be it. The life of Jesus was summed up by Simon Peter when he said that Jesus went around doing good. (Acts 10:38) Not talking about doing good but doing good is the need. Not planning to do good, but doing it.

“Help us to understand that being a do-gooder is not a
bad thing but what our lives are to be all about. Amen”