When Doing Good Doesn’t Make You Look Good

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. In order to do this, we must care about the other person as much as we care about ourselves. It may be easy to do this when empathy makes you look good such as giving to the Red Cross. What about when it doesn’t? Can you resist the urge to get even with the one who was ‘stank’ with you that you KNOW is broken? What about resisting the urge to wrongly judge the person who never seems to speak to you but always talks about you? Everybody is going through SOMETHING. Are you empathetic enough to REMAIN GROWN, not take it personally, but rather take it to God in prayer? This is not an elementary school post. This is graduate school one.

Leviticus 19:18 – ESV – You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

The Part Of You That Will NEVER Be Saved!

Sometimes doing the right thing requires you to take your mind/body hostage and MAKE it obey. This happens to the best of the best so don't be discouraged. Flesh will never get saved so no need to be frustrated when it wants to act like a sinner. Just feed your spirit more so that when flesh wants to show out, spirit can MAKE it behave.

1 Corinthians 9:27 - English Standard Version (©2001) But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.