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Doing Good



Gal. 6:9-10 And don’t allow yourselves to be weary in planting good seeds, for the season of reaping the wonderful harvest you’ve planted is coming! Take advantage of every opportunity to be a blessing to others, especially to our brothers and sisters in the family of faith! (TPT)

 

One of our general callings as believers is to do good unto others, but as you reflect on our text, you will find that one of the key words there is opportunity. How does opportunity come? Sometimes, we are just in our own place and opportunity comes knocking, and this is true for everyone, only not everyone takes advantage of the it. Opportunity comes knocking when someone needs your help in feeding themselves or their family, paying their hospital bill, school fees, or just meeting some basic needs. However, there are also times that you are actively on the lookout for opportunity, looking for someone you can be a blessing to, and this is where my focus lies in this short piece.

 

Our world is very challenging right now, people are going through various challenges, and a lot of people are just focused on themselves, and how they can make maximum progress in the shortest possible time, and honestly this is good and reasonable. But as believers we have got a higher calling than that, and that higher calling is to actively be on the lookout for the opportunity to do good to others. The question you should ask yourself from time to time is when last did you make something good happen to someone in the same magnitude that you desire.

 

We often pray that something good should happen to us, and that God will send helpers our way, but let’s not forget that we also can make something good happen to someone, or that we can be the help that someone else needs. The system of God operates in like a “pay it forward” approach, where as someone hands over something to you, you in turn will hand over something to the person next to you. Now, if you choose to break that cycle by always withholding that which you have instead of being a blessing to the next person to you, you will be taken out of it, and the cycle will be rejoined for the flow to continue.

 

God has rich rewards for doing good, and the scripture says we shall reap in due season if we do not faint or give up. Perhaps, you are thinking right now that you have being doing good and you seem not to have reaped, well, this is not the time to give up on doing good because if you do, there is not a promise of ever reaping, but if you hold out there, then the God that promised will certainly bring it to pass in your life.

 

The encouragement again today is to go beyond waiting for the opportunity to do good, step out to actively seek for the opportunity to do good unto others. You will by this be fulfilling the call and enjoy a life of blessing.

 

Shalom!

Comments

  1. Anonymous30 April 2022 at 07:43

    This is a blessing to me, as always. Thank you Sir, for sharing.

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  2. Anonymous30 April 2022 at 11:28

    Very admonishing Sir

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