The excerpt below was extracted with permission from Jen Wilkin’s book Renewed, Faithful Editor.
Be good. To be the person who seeks to do good to others, to be the person who gives without valuing the price that costs, to be the person who serves with joy without waiting for the gratitude or recognition of others, to be good employees, good neighbors, good mothers, good girls, good musicians and public servants, artists and volunteers, caregivers and bankers. If you’re good at what you do, you’ll draw attention like a city built on the hill we see at midnight in the desert.
- However.
- Don’t expect others to run merrily into your light.
- The surprising thing about doing well is how often people experience a negative reaction.
- Others may see his good deeds and give glory to God.
- But this may not be the case.
- Cynics call chronically benevolent “in a bad mood to be good.
- “Its excessive goodness is undoubtedly a light.
- But for lovers of darkness.
- It is also excessively undesirable.
- Has a similar effect to sunlight that hits reptiles exposed under a stone that has been returned to the garden.
- Of others leads this benefactor to find contempt.
- Take.
- For example.
- The supreme benefactor.
- Jesus Himself:.
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with holy spirit and power, who walked everywhere, doing good and healing all the oppressed of the devil, for God was with him; and we witness all that he has done in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem; The one who also took his life hanging him from the tree?(Acts 10. 38-39).
Peter’s words to the Gentiles about how evil responds to good teach us: if we want to walk in the light as it is in the light, we must strive to act kindly and be good, and we must prepare ourselves to receive the same treatment as Christ He received. Among the children of God, there is no room for goodness to win favor with God or others. Only the kindness to express our gratitude to the good God will do. Only the goodness that seeks to reflect it will suffice. Only goodness that aims to love others will accumulate treasures in heaven. If our neighbor rejects us, so be it! We will have done what Christ would have done; if our neighbor accepts us and glorifies God, we will rejoice with the angels.
Isn’t it enough to be good for good? We must be good for God’s sake, of which we enjoy goodness every day. We must persevere in goodness. Paul motivates us by saying that perhaps goodness tires us, but that it always leads to a good harvest:?(Galatians 6. 9). The struggle for kindness takes time and effort; we can tire of our own inner resistance to the growth of goodness, or we can tire of the resistance of others to our goodness in practice; but constancy in doing good produces fruit in the season itself. And when the fruit ripens, it increasingly marks us as sons and daughters of the Father of the Enlightenment.
What is God’s will for your life?May you be good as it is good; may generosity be your first impulse in the morning and your last thought in the afternoon; that you walk in the light as in the light; there is no darkness and there is no place for darkness. in our lives.
Until the Son comes, let’s be good!
Exodus 33: 18-19
Then he said, I pray thee, that ye may show me thy glory, and he said, I will pass all my goodness before thee, and proclaim the name of the Lord; I will have mercy on those who have mercy and compassion on those who have mercy. Compassion.
Psalm 25: 8-9
The Lord is good and upright, therefore he shows the way to sinners.
Guide the humble in righteousness and show them their way.
Psalm 100. 5
Because the Lord is good, his mercy endures forever, and his faithfulness from generation to generation.
Naum 1. 7
The Lord is good, he is strong on the day of anguish, and He knows those who take refuge in him.
Romans 8. 28
We know that all things contribute to the good of those who love God, of those who are called according to their plan.
Galatians 6: 9-10
And let us not tire of doing good, for in time we will reap, if we do not faint; therefore, as long as we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to the family of faith.
James 1. 17
Every good gift and every perfect gift comes from on high, a descendant of the Father of Lights, in whom there can be no variation or shadow of change.